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[BTW I think
Old Rus' "Chud'" probably goes back to this
"Thiudos"
(and later derivatives: a traditional North German/
Norse
designation for the "people" of this area].
[Sergejus
Tarasovas]
ORuss
<c^udI> (f.) 'a nom. pr. of a number
of northern peoples, including Baltic Finns', <c^uz^I> (adj.) 'alien' ,
OCS <s^tuz^dI> 'id.' (> hence a bookish Russian hybrid c^'uz^dyj
'extraneous, alien'), as well as their cognates in other Slavic languages,
derive from Slavic *tjudjI 'alien('s)', which is a semantically inverted
borrowing from Germanic (or, more specificly, Gothic?) *Tiudiskaz 'ours' <
*Tiud- '(our) people' < PIE *teut- 'people'.
Sergei