stotter
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See also: støtter
English
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[edit]From Middle English stoteren (compare also participle Middle English staterand (“staggering; tottering; stumbling”)), a frequentative form of Middle English stoten (“to stumble”), related to Dutch stoten (“to push; bump; butt; stumble against”), German stoßen (“to push; butt; knock; bump”), Icelandic stauta (“to struggle through; pound; grind”), equivalent to stut + -er (frequentative suffix).
Verb
[edit]stotter (third-person singular simple present stotters, present participle stottering, simple past and past participle stottered)
- (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To stagger; totter; stumble
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.
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[edit]stotter
- inflection of stotteren:
German
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- inflection of stottern:
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