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Chud
Sign in to savethumb|Kievan Rus 1030–1113. The lands of the Chuds are shown in the north. Chud or Chude (, , ) is a term historically applied in the early East Slavic annals to several Baltic Finnic peoples in the area of what is now Estonia, Karelia and Northwestern Russia. It has also been used to refer to other Finno-Ugric peoples.
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- Etymology
- Attestation in Slavonic sources
- Identity
- Chuds in folklore
- Use of term in historical times
- See also
- References
- Primary sources
- External links
thumb|Kievan Rus 1030–1113. The lands of the Chuds are shown in the north. Chud or Chude (, , ) is a term historically applied in the early East Slavic annals to several Baltic Finnic peoples in the area of what is now Estonia, Karelia and Northwestern Russia. It has also been used to refer to other Finno-Ugric peoples.
==Etymology== There are a number of hypotheses as to the origin of the term. Chud could be derived from the Slavic word tjudjo ('foreign' or 'strange'). Another hypothesis is that the term was derived from a transformation of the Finno-Ugric name for the wood grouse. Yet another hypothesis contends that it is derived from the Sami word tshudde or čuđđe, meaning an enemy or adversary (). This would have required prominent Sami presence in trading centers around Lake Ladoga.