1300-1400halt ‘to walk with difficulty’, from Old Englishhealtian
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
He looks extremely real and solid, and is clearly not illusory, but he talks in a stiff, halting manner.
I felt our situation had been reversed: now I was the halting beginner, he was the fluent expert.
The initial, halting conversation would be about Masai bravery and the importance of showing no pain.
if your speech or movements are halting, you stop for a moment between words or movements, especially because you are not confidentSYN hesitant: We carried on a rather halting conversation.—haltingly adverb