Chukhna  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". 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. In modern usage, the words are considered ethnic slurs for Finns and Estonians.