чудь

According to Vasmer, the term probably originally referred to Germanic people, and derives from Proto-Slavic *ťuďь (“foreign, strange”), from Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰 (þiuda, “people”); compare to чужо́й (čužój). Alternatively, perhaps related to Sami čuđđe (“enemy”), but that would require early contact between East Slavs and Sami, and the Sami word might rather be a loanword from Slavic.

The Sami word can be explained as a loan from Slavic during the war between Sami and the Čuđek (if this war has any historical evidence). [1]

• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʉtʲ]

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• Homophones: чуть (čutʹ)

чудь • (čudʹ) f inan (genitive чу́ди, uncountable, related adjective чудско́й)

1. (collective) Chud
2. a Subterranean wight living usually inside of mountains or burial mounds [2]

• чудин (čudin)
• чудско́й (čudskój)
• Чудско́е о́зеро (Čudskóje ózero)
• чухна́ (čuxná)
• чухо́нец (čuxónec)
• чучка (čučka) [3]
• tuss (identical creature in Norwegian folklore)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “чудь”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress