C.H.U.D.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Russian чудь (čudʹ). Doublet of tuath and thede.

名詞

Chud (複数形 Chuds または Chud)

1. (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.
   • 1998, Michael P. Robinson, Karim-Aly S. Kassam, Leif Rantala, Sami Potatoes: Living with Reindeer and Perestroika (Bayeux Arts Incorporated, →ISBN), page 76:

     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.

   • 2015, Anti Selart, Livonia, Rus’ and the Baltic Crusades in the Thirteenth Century (BRILL →ISBN), page 62:

     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 [...]

   • 2016, Alexander Basilevsky, Early Ukraine: A Military and Social History to the Mid–19th Century (McFarland, →ISBN), page 159:

     [...] 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.