totter

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɒtə/
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• General-American: /ˈtɑtɚ/
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• rhymes with -ɒtə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: T AA1 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Austrian German Totter.

From Middle English totren, toteren, from earlier *tolteren (compare dialectal English tolter (“to struggle, flounder”); Scots tolter (“unstable, wonky”)), from Old English tealtrian (“to totter, vacillate”), from Proto-Germanic *taltrōną, a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *taltōną (“to sway, dangle, hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”). Cognate with Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), Norwegian dialectal totra (“to quiver, shake”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”). Related to tilt.

77 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: залитане (zalitane) — unsteady movement
• Chinese Mandarin: 踉蹌 /踉跄 — unsteady movement
• Dutch: tuimeling — unsteady movement
• Dutch: valpartij — unsteady movement
• Finnish: horjunta — unsteady movement
• Finnish: hoipunta — unsteady movement
• French: chute — unsteady movement
• French: écroulement — unsteady movement
• German: Schwanken — unsteady movement
• German: Taumeln — unsteady movement
• German: Torkeln — unsteady movement
• Greek: παραπάτημα (parapátima) — unsteady movement
• Greek: τρέκλισμα (tréklisma) — unsteady movement
• Persian: تلو (telow) — unsteady movement
• Polish: zataczanie się — unsteady movement
• Polish: chwianie się — unsteady movement
• Portuguese: cambalear — unsteady movement
• Serbo-Croatian: teturanje — unsteady movement
• Bulgarian: залитам (zalitam) — move or stand unsteadily
• Bulgarian: клатя се (klatja se) — move or stand unsteadily
• Czech: vrávorat — move or stand unsteadily
• Czech: zakolísat — move or stand unsteadily
• Czech: klopýtat — move or stand unsteadily
• Czech: kymácet se — move or stand unsteadily
• Czech: potácet se — move or stand unsteadily
• Dutch: struikelen — move or stand unsteadily
• Dutch: strompelen — move or stand unsteadily
• Finnish: horjua — move or stand unsteadily
• Finnish: hoippua — move or stand unsteadily
• French: tituber — move or stand unsteadily
• German: schwanken — move or stand unsteadily
• German: taumeln — move or stand unsteadily
• German: torkeln — move or stand unsteadily
• Greek: παραπαίω (parapaío) — move or stand unsteadily
• Greek: παραπατώ (parapató) — move or stand unsteadily
• Greek: τρεκλίζω (treklízo) — move or stand unsteadily
• Hindi: लड़खड़ाना (laṛakhṛānā) — move or stand unsteadily
• Hindi: लंगड़ाना (laṅgṛānā) — move or stand unsteadily
• Hindi: डगमगाना (ḍagamgānā) — move or stand unsteadily
• Hindi: ढलमलाना (ḍhalamlānā) — move or stand unsteadily
• Hindi: डोलना (ḍolnā) — move or stand unsteadily
• Hindi: टलमलाना (ṭalamlānā) — move or stand unsteadily
• Hungarian: tántorog — move or stand unsteadily
• Hungarian: ingadozik — move or stand unsteadily
• Hungarian: támolyog — move or stand unsteadily
• Irish: tuisligh — move or stand unsteadily
• Italian: barcollare — move or stand unsteadily
• Latin: cassō — move or stand unsteadily
• Latin: labō — move or stand unsteadily
• Latin: titubō — move or stand unsteadily
• Māori: tapepa — move or stand unsteadily
• Māori: kaurori — move or stand unsteadily
• Māori: ruriruri — move or stand unsteadily
• Māori: tatutatu — move or stand unsteadily
• Māori: tūrorirori — move or stand unsteadily
• Māori: turori — move or stand unsteadily
• Māori: hikoki — move or stand unsteadily
• Māori: hūoioi — move or stand unsteadily
• Māori: kōkeke — move or stand unsteadily
• Polish: zataczać się — move or stand unsteadily
• Polish: zatoczyć się — move or stand unsteadily
• Polish: chwiać się — move or stand unsteadily
• Russian: ковыля́ть (kovyljátʹ) — move or stand unsteadily
• Russian: шата́ться (šatátʹsja) — move or stand unsteadily
• Russian: кача́ться (kačátʹsja) — move or stand unsteadily
• Sanskrit: हूर्छति (hūrchati) — move or stand unsteadily
• Campidanese Sardinian: istontonai — move or stand unsteadily
• Sardinian: cantzicare — move or stand unsteadily
• Sardinian: istontonare — move or stand unsteadily
• Sardinian: tambulare — move or stand unsteadily
• Sardinian: trampulinare — move or stand unsteadily
• Sassarese: bantzigà — move or stand unsteadily
• Sassarese: tamburà — move or stand unsteadily
• Serbo-Croatian: teturati — move or stand unsteadily
• Spanish: tambalearse — move or stand unsteadily
• Spanish: bascular — move or stand unsteadily
• Spanish: dar tumbos — move or stand unsteadily