An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/stottern

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, S
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

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This annotated version expands the abbreviations in the original entry stottern.

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2529628An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, S — stotternJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

stottern, verb, ‘to stutter, stammer,’ Modern High German only (in Swabian gaksen, Austrian štückezen), formed from Middle German and Low German, in which stotteren (so too in Dutch) is an intensive of stoten, ‘to push, thrust’ (stottern, literally ‘to stumble repeatedly’); corresponding to English to stutter. See the preceding word.