Kapitanskaya dochka: "umyot"

[Inna Caron]

Dal' specifies etymology of "umyot" in the sense of "khutor, zaimka" as
"ur.-kzch.," which I decipher as "ural'sko-kazach'ii." Meaning, it is a
dialect word, peculiar to the location, which still seems to be used by
Pushkin for adding the locality (oddly exotic) flair. 

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Inna Caron wrote:

> I am guessing it is a Bashkir or a Kyrgiz word, so it has no
particular
> connotation in Russian other than giving the narrative a more ethnic
> flavor, in accordance with the spirit of Orientalism. You know, of
> course, that both Pushkin and Lermontov (not to mention
> Bestuzhev-Marlinsky) liberally used Ossetian and Circassian words when
> writing about Caucasus. I think the same idea applies here.

УМЁТ
одинокое жилище в степи, заимка, хуторок, постоялый двор; станция на 
старых солевозных трактах в южной части Руси (уст., Поволжье, 
Прикаспийская низменность).

Ср. умет -- <грязь>, <навоз>, <помет>, у+метать [Фасмер, 1973, 4].

<> Умёт и Градский Умет в Тамбольской обл.; Дубовый Умет в Куйбышевской 
обл.; Умет-Камышинский и Умет в Волгоградской обл.; Умет в Мордовской 
АССР; Умет в Саратовской обл.

Source:
Словарь народных географических терминов [Dictionary of Folk Geographic 
Terms], by E. M. Murzayev (Мурзаев Э.М.). Moscow: Mysl, 1984. Several 
thousand obscure regional and local terms for geographic features, 653 
pp., ill.

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