пӳрт

Chuvash

Etymology

Possibly from Eastern Mari пӧрт (pört). Alternatively related to Yakut бырт (bırt, “wellbeing, wealth”).

Noun

пӳрт • (pürt) (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural пӳртсем) 

  1. house
    Synonym: ҫурт (śurt)
  2. izba, (peasant's) log hut, cottage

References

  • “пӳрт”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.
  • Jakob, A. (2023) “Loanwords into other Uralic languages”, in A history of East Baltic through language contact‎[2], page 234
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