Noun
stammering (plural stammerings)
- The act of one who stammers.
We could not understand his inarticulate stammerings.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 95:At that point, humanity crosses another threshold, miniaturizes its universe into symbolic form, and takes a toddling step toward iconography, writing, and the first stammerings of calendrical notation and mathematics.
Translations
- Albanian: belbëzim (sq) m
- Czech: koktání n
- Danish: stammen c
- Dutch: gestotter (nl) n, gestamel (nl) n
- French: bafouillage (fr) m, balbutiement (fr) m, bégaiement (fr) m
- German: Gestotter n
- Irish: bailbhe f, balbhántaíocht f, snagaireacht f, stadaireacht f, trudaireacht f
- Italian: balbettio m, balbettamento m, ciangottio m, tartagliamento m
- Latin: haesitantia f, haesitātiō f, titubātiō f
- Russian: заика́ние (ru) n (zaikánije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: му̏ца̄ње n
- Roman: mȕcānje (sh) n
- Spanish: tartamudeo (es) m
- Tagalog: pagkautal
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