stammering

English

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.

act of stammering — see also stuttering,‎ stammer,‎ stutter

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

stammering

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