Chukhna, Chukhnas, Chukhontsy (singular: Chukhonets (male), Chukhonka (female)) is an obsolete Russian term for some Finnic peoples: Finns, Estonians, Karelians, Ingrian Finns.
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 its a reference to Finns in the vicinity of St. Petersburg.[2]
In modern usage, the words are considered ethnic slurs for Finns and Estonians.
In the 2002 Russian Census, 15 persons described themselves as "Chukhontsy".
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