Chukhna
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thumb|An ethnographic illustration of a Chukhna peasant, 1799 Chukhna, Chukhnas, Chukhontsy (singular: Chukhonets (male), Chukhonka (female)) is an obsolete Russian term for Balto-Finnic peoples; particularly Finns, Estonians, Karelians, Ingrian Finns.
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thumb|An ethnographic illustration of a Chukhna peasant, 1799 Chukhna, Chukhnas, Chukhontsy (singular: Chukhonets (male), Chukhonka (female)) is an obsolete Russian term for Balto-Finnic peoples; particularly Finns, Estonians, Karelians, Ingrian Finns.
It is thought to be a derivative from the ethnonym Chud.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chukhna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.