stammering

English

Noun

stammering (plural stammerings)

1. 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

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

Verb

stammering

1. present participle and gerund of stammer