Chukhna

Chukhna, Chukhnas, Chukhontsy (singular: Chukhonets (male), Chukhonka (female)) is an obsolete Russian term for some Finnic peoples: Finns, Estonians, Karelians, Ingrian Finns.

An ethnographic illustration of a chukhna peasant, 1799

It is thought to be a derivative from the ethnonym Chud.[1]

The 18th century Linguarum totius orbis vocabularia comparativa of Peter Simon Pallas has a vocabulary of the "Chukhna language".

Vladimir Dahl, in his Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian language, records a reference to Finns in the vicinity of St. Petersburg.[2]

In modern usage, the words are considered ethnic slurs for Finns and Estonians.[3][4]

References
  1. A direct reference is cited here: Blench, Roger; Spriggs, Matthew (Aug 28, 1997). Archaeology and Language I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
  2. Вл. Даль. "Трескаться" [Explanatory Dictionary of Russian language]. Толковый словарь живого великорусского языка. IV (6th ed.). М.: Гос. изд-во иностр. и национ. словарей, 1955. p. 429.
  3. Mack, Glenn Randall; Surina, Asele (2005). Food Culture in Russia and Central Asia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-313-32773-5. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  4. Bakich, Olga (2015). Valerii Pereleshin: The Life of a Silkworm. University of Toronto Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-4426-4892-0. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
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