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Chud
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chud
English
Alternative forms
en Chude
Etymology
From en ru чудь. en tuath.
Pronunciation
en /t͡ʃuːd/
en uːd 1
Noun
s *
en historical in early Russian annals chiefly used _ in the plural A member of any of several Finnic peoples in the area of what is now Estonia, Karelia and Northwestern Russia.
en 1998 Michael P. Robinson; Karim-Aly S. Kassam; Leif Rantala Sami Potatoes: Living with Reindeer and Perestroika 76 Bayeux Arts Incorporated 9781896209111 In the meantime, the Chuds tied [her] foot so that she would not escape. When Liaine returned with his brother Aripi and son Peairi, he found the Sami camp smouldering and empty.
en 2015 Anti Selart Livonia, Rus’ and the Baltic Crusades in the Thirteenth Century 62 BRILL 9789004284753 Some Chuds had attained a prominent position at the court of the early Russian princes. Military campaigns against the Chuds are mentioned in the chronicles from the 11th century. They were defeated by Prince Iaroslav Vladimirovich [...]
en 2016 Alexander Basilevsky Early Ukraine: A Military and Social History to the Mid–19th Century 159 McFarland 9781476620220 [...] turned to another region which paid tribute to Pskov, the land of the Chuds (Estonian Finns). [...] Iuriev or Tartu as it became known was nominally under a Chud elder called Vetseke but had a garrison from Pskov.
Translations
a member of any of several Finnic peoples
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 楚德人 co2 dak1 jan4
Mandarin: cmn 楚德人 chǔdérén
Estonian: et tšuudi
Finnish: fi tšuudi, fi tsuudi
Polish: pl Czudź m
Russian: ru чудь collective
Swedish: sv tjud c
Ukrainian: uk чудь collective
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