STUTTER  口吃訥

SPEAK so as to OFTEN, NOT VOLUNTARILY, STOP SPEAKING.
STAMMERSTUMBLEFALTER
Hypernym
  • SPEAKACT so as to USE WORDS FOR SHOWING MEANING.*Speech by speaker X, directed towards audience Y, in order to communicate message Z.
    • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision.
      • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION.
        • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. Nè 訥 refers to a general intellectual or linguistic difficulty in expressing oneself fluently or smoothly.

2. Jí 吃 refers straightforwardly to stuttering and is compatible with powerful eloquence (cf. Han Fei, who stuttered).

3. Jiǎn 謇 refers to physical impediments to articulation like lisping.

Modern Chinese Criteria
口吃 is the standard modern word for stuttering.

結巴 jiēba is a more elevated standard word for stuttering.

磕巴 kēba is a rarer modern word for stuttering.

蹇吃 jiǎnchī refers to a whole range of speech disorders including the lisp and the stutter.

謇

期期 (lit, obs) is a classical way of referring to stuttering dating from Han times.

期期艾艾 (prof) "stutter and stammer" is an intensitive literary way of referring to stuttering.

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

  • 古辭辨 Gu ci bian ( WANG FENGYANG 1993) p. 761

  • Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages ( DE VAAN 2008) p.

    balbus 'stammering' [m. o] (Lucil.+)

    Derivatives: balbuttire / balbutfre 'to stammer' (Cic.+).

Words

吶  nè OC: nod MC: ɳiɛt 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vibe slow of speech; stammer; be tongue-tied
訥  nè OC: nuud MC: nuot 2 Attributions

Nè 訥refers to a general intellectual or linguistic difficulty in expressing oneself fluently or smoothly.

    Word relations
  • Ant: 辯 / 辨/ELOQUENT The current general term for articulate rhetorical ability is biàn 辯 (ant. nè 訥 "be tongue-tied").

    Syntactic words
  • nabdispositioninarticulateness, articulatory reticence
  • vibe inarticulate
  • vt+prep+Ngradedbe reluctant or unable to express oneself fluently in, be tongue-tied with respect to
木訥  mù nè OC: mooɡ nuud MC: muk nuot 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPabfeature"wooden" inarticulateness
口吃  kǒu chī MC: khuwX kj+t OC: khooʔ kɯdVK 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • VPito have a stutterVK
吃  chī OC: kɯd MC: kɨt 0 Attributions

Jí 吃 refers straightforwardly to stuttering and is compatible with powerful eloquence (cf. Han Fei, who stuttered).

    Syntactic words
  • viSHIJI: stutter
唫  Click here to add pinyin OC:  MC: 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vibe tongue-tied
詘  qū OC: khlud MC: khi̯ut 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • viactstutter
謇  jiǎn OC: kranʔ MC: kiɛn 0 Attributions

Jiǎn 謇 refers to physical impediments to articulation like lisping.

    Syntactic words
  • vilisp
  • viacthave impeded speech, speak in interrupted bursts

Existing SW for

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