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a something of, a conclusion
 

        bratla dasla disla dutla
        fatla fatlast fitla fjatla   ₁
 
assembling their powers while they putter   ₂
six or seven words with each,
 
        fjusla fusla knatla kratla
        krutla lasla   ₁
 
and they went on,   ₃   each in turn
 
        masla mutla mysla njatla, nusla   ₁
 
seemed to him to be as a something of, which merely   ₄
went into the rooms; into something now, not nothing   ₃
 
        pjotla prisla prutla pusla
        sysla tasla trusla tusla   ₁
 
One writes where the words lead.   ₅
 
        vasla   ₁
eg bare putla saa smaat   ₆
 

sources

  1. ex section 6, “Some Phenomena Associated with the L-suffix,” in
    Einar Haugen, “Analysis of a Sound Group : SL and TL in Norwegian,” in PMLA 57:3 (September 1942) : 879-907 (895)
    more and details at putterings 633

    (2) Puttering and ineffectual work.⁴³
    ⁴³ bratla 3; dasla 3; disla 1, 4; dutla 3, 4; fatla 4; fatlast 3; fitla 3, 4; fjatla 1, 3, 4; fjusla 1, 3, 4; fusla 1, 3?; knatla 4; kratla 1, 3; krutla 1, 3, 4; lasla 4; masla 3; mutla 1, 3, 4; mysla 1, 4; njatla 4 nusla 1, 3; pjotla 4; prisla 4; prutla 3; pusla 2, 3, 4; sysla 1, 3; tasla 3, 4; trusla seg 4, tusla 1, 3, 4; vasla 3.

  2. “Puttering,” in The Wetaskiwin [Alberta] Times 24:16 (July 10, 1924) : 3
    from putterings 624
  3. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925) : 231
    UC Berkeley copy/scan (via hathitrust) : more
  4. that each in turn seemed to him to be as a something of the familiar past, which merely

    ex W. M. Baker, “The Reaction of Genius,” in Appletons’ Journal (June 1879) : 513-523 (516)
    more

  5. a (dental) afterthought, anon (2026)
  6. I remember he used the expression several times that he was only puttering in a small way (“eg bare putla saa smaat”).

    at conclusion of XXXII. Elling Eielsen (pp410-414), and above start of XXXIII. John G. Smith, Ole Consulen, G. Unonius (pp414-416), in
    The First Chapter of Norwegian Immigration (1821-1840) : Its causes and results... With an introduction on the services rendered by the Scandinavians to the world and to America.
    By Rasmus B(jorn). Anderson. Third edition (Madison, Wisconsin, 1896) : 414

    reprised, from putterings 356
     

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