Finnic cognates include EstonianRootsi, LivviRuočči(“(Lutheran) Finland”), VepsRočinma and VõroRoodsi. Old East SlavicРусь(Rusĭ) (whence Byzantine GreekΡωσσία(Rōssía)), the original form of the endonym of Russians that originally referred to a tribe of Varangians, is likely borrowed from Finnic, but is ultimately from the same Germanic source (compare the etymology section of ryssä(“(derogatory) Russian”), from Swedishryss, from the aforementioned Slavic word). Samic words, such as Northern SamiRuoŧŧa, are borrowings from Finnic.