Possibly from Eastern Mari пӧрт (pört). Alternatively related to Yakut бырт (bırt, “wellbeing, wealth”).
пӳрт • (pürt) (plural пӳртсем)
- house
- Synonym: ҫурт (śurt)
- izba, (peasant's) log hut, cottage
- “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