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From Russianсамое́д(samojéd), probably from Sami*saam-edne(“land of the people”); compare FinnishSuomi(“Finn”). In the course of borrowing, the word was folk-etymologically reinterpreted as сам(sam, “self, own”) + есть, ед-(jestʹ, jed-, “eat”), "self-eater."
1613, Samuel Purchas, “ Of other Northerne people adioyning to the Tartars.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present., London: William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone,, →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 363:
The Samoyeds are Idolaters and Witches, obſeruing diuelliſh ſuperſtitions
