inferred their name which was an exonym meaning "tribesmen" in their native language. Several historians and scholars such as Lubor Niederle and Pavel Jozef Šafárik believe that the Budini were a Slavic people, and that the etymology stems from the Slavic word for 'water' which is "Voda". Same as Water in English, Votic in Finnish, Vatten in Swedish. Finnic Origin The 1911 edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica surmises that the Budini were Finnic peoples, of the Permian branch now represented by the Udmurts and Komis. Estonian amateur historian and nationalist Edgar V. Saks identifies Budini as the Finnic Votic people, a theory Urmas Sutrop described as "pseudoscientific". Other theories see in them the ancestors of the Finns, or the ancestors of Mordvins or Permians. See also Gelonians Gelonus Budini and Votyaks - a prominent archeological site in what is now north-eastern Ukraine. The remains of this 5th century BC settlement are usually associated with Budini. References Sources Ancient peoples Scythia Tribes described primarily by Herodotus