This Finnic tribe that neighboured the East Slavs at least from XII century is likely to contain the Kartvelian root ცუდ(ი) [tsud(i)] meaning 'bad'.
"... The dictionary data show that the word Chude is associated with the meanings of 'dirty', 'alien to any community', 'black', 'wild' ... The word 'black' has a number of meanings in the figurative sense of 'negative', 'bad, 'gloomy', 'joyless', 'heavy' ...".
http://www.univer.omsk.su/trudy/fil_ezh/n2/feoktistova.html
So, as we see, the word 'chude' (чудь) IS connected with the meaning 'bad'. The word's form is very close too: (a) the soft sign corresponds to Georgian nominative case 'i'-ending; (b) the confusion between 'ч' and 'ц' is also a well-known phenomenon.
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