stammering

noun

1. The act of one who stammers.

   “We could not understand his inarticulate stammerings.”

   “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.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of stammer