Kapitanskaya dochka: "umyot"

[Robert Chandler]

Dear all,

I am retranslating Kapitanskaya dochka.

It is difficult to know what to do with the word умет (umyot) in the
following sentence: Постоялый двор, или, по-тамошнему, умет, находился в
стороне, в степи, далече от всякого селения, и очень походил на
разбойническую пристань.  At present I am simply transliterating it, which
is not a satisfactory solution:  The inn – or umyot, as they called it in
those parts – was in the middle of the steppe, a long way from anywhere, and
seemed uncommonly like a robbers’ den.

Does anyone have any ideas?  Does the word have any particular associations
that I should be trying to reproduce in a translation?

Best Wishes,

Robert

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