續一切經音義 4.105

4.105

Stuttering and halting (jianse 謇澀: the first character has the fanqie [reading] jiu + nian [jian]. The Shuowen [jiezi] says: "謇 means to stammer," referring to difficulty in speech. It is sometimes written 𧮈 with 'speech'. The second character has the fanqie [reading] se + li [se]. We note that the character se should properly take 'person' [as semantic component] to form 㒊. The dictionary states: "Babbling and halting speech is speech that is not smooth." Here it is written with 'water' as 澀; the Shuowen [jiezi] says: "Water obstructed and unable to flow." This does not bear the meaning of stuttering and stammering. 譶 has the fanqie chu + yin [fan] [ta]).