portianki

[Graham Wilkins]

A портянка would be a puttee, for plural, just add an s.  It is (I think)
pronounced pah-TEE.  Not a very common word to come across in English.

Graham

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:17 AM, /Elena Baraban/ <Elena_Baraban at umanitoba.ca
> wrote:

>  Dear colleagues,
>
>  How to translate the russian word 'portianki' into English?
>
>  Thank you,
>
>  elena
>
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