Translation help

[Nona Ryan]

On 2 May 2001, at 17:53, James Bailey wrote:

> Carol,
>       Without checking it seems to me that "fatera" is dialect or
> substandard for "kvartira."  As I remember Rybnikov cites it in the
> introduction to his collection of byliny.
>       James Bailey
>
> At 05:13 PM 5/2/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >Dear Seelangers,
> >      I have a senior who is translating two skazki as an honors
> >project.  One of them is entitled "Suvorushka" from the collection
> >"Sibirskie skazki" collected by I.S. Korovkin and published in
> >Novosibirsk in 1973.  There is one word which has us stumped, even our
> >resident native speakers.  It is "na fatere" and occurs in the following
> >context: "A gde Druzhevna Korolevna?  Ona vot na fatere u babushki.
> >Togda vse troe poshli tuda".  Any suggestions would be gratefully
> >appreciated!
> >                                                             Carol Ueland
> >
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"Fatera" an old Russian word for an apartment or flat in Russian
kvartira.

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