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[aliceinfinland.livejournal.com]

Longtime lurker here, and like the last poster, I have one of those mysterious-word posts. The word in question appears in Latin transcription (in a Finnish text) and it is "tsuhonka" with a thing over the s that means it's pronounced like "sh." It is being used to refer to Finnish women working as maids in St. Petersburg households in the 19th century. The closest I could get with a dictionary is чужой 'foreign' - so does it just mean 'foreign woman'?