trastabillar
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From trastrabillar, from trans- + traba (“obstacle, rub”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾastabiˈʝaɾ/ [t̪ɾas.t̪a.β̞iˈʝaɾ] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /tɾastabiˈʎaɾ/ [t̪ɾas.t̪a.β̞iˈʎaɾ] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /tɾastabiˈʃaɾ/ [t̪ɾas.t̪a.β̞iˈʃaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /tɾastabiˈʒaɾ/ [t̪ɾas.t̪a.β̞iˈʒaɾ] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: tras‧ta‧bi‧llar
Verb
trastabillar (first-person singular present trastabillo, first-person singular preterite trastabillé, past participle trastabillado)
- (intransitive) to stumble
- (intransitive) to stutter, stammer
- Synonym: tartamudear
Conjugation
Conjugation of trastabillar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading
- “trastabillar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024