different between whine vs stammer
whine
English
Etymology
From Middle English whynen, hwinen, whinen, from Old English hw?nan (“to rush, to whizz, to squeal, to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hw?nan, from Proto-Germanic *hw?nan?, from Proto-Indo-European *?wey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with Old Norse hvína, whence Icelandic hvína, Norwegian hvine, Swedish vina, and Danish hvine.
Despite the strong similarity in sound and meaning, not related with German weinen, Dutch wenen, from Proto-Germanic *wain?n?.
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?n, IPA(key): /wa?n/, [?a??n], [????n], [?ä?n], [??e?n]
- (without the wine–whine merger) enPR: hw?n, IPA(key): /?a?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
- Homophone: wine (accents with the wine-whine merger)
Noun
whine (plural whines)
- A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.
- A complaint or criticism.
Translations
Verb
whine (third-person singular simple present whines, present participle whining, simple past and past participle whined)
- (intransitive) To utter a high-pitched cry.
- (intransitive) To make a sound resembling such a cry.
- The jet engines whined at take off.
- (intransitive) To complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine.
- (intransitive) To move with a whining sound.
- (transitive) To utter with the sound of a whine.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:complain
Translations
Middle English
Verb
whine
- Alternative form of whynen
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stammer
English
Etymology
From Middle English stameren, from Old English stamerian, from Proto-West Germanic *stamr?n, from Proto-Germanic *stamr?n? (“to stammer”). Compare German stammeln, Dutch stameren, Old Norse stammr. Doublet of stumble.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?stæm?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?stæm?/
- Rhymes: -æm?(?)
Verb
stammer (third-person singular simple present stammers, present participle stammering, simple past and past participle stammered)
- (intransitive) To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
- (transitive) To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.
- He blushed, and stammered a few words of apology.
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi:
- The high school had a send-off in my honour. It was an uncommon thing for a young man of Rajkot to go to England. I had written out a few words of thanks. But I could scarcely stammer them out. I remember how my head reeled and how my whole frame shook as I stood up to read them.
Synonyms
- stutter
Translations
Noun
stammer (plural stammers)
- The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.
Translations
Further reading
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “stammer”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- stremma
Danish
Noun
stammer c
- indefinite plural of stamme
Verb
stammer
- present of stamme
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
stammer m
- indefinite plural of stamme
Verb
stammer
- present tense of stamme
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- stammar
Noun
stammer m or f
- indefinite feminine plural of stamme
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