Blackfoot

See also: blackfoot

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈblæk.fʊt/

Noun

Blackfoot (plural Blackfoots or Blackfoot or Blackfeet)

1. A member of a North American confederacy of several tribes.
   • 1954 February, Trevor Holloway, “Canada's Transcontinental Routes”, in Railway Magazine, page 128:

     Bears and other ferocious beasts resented man's intrusion into their domain; so, too, did the Blackfoot Indians and other tribes, whose savage hostility was a constant menace to the lives of the toiling engineers.

Translations

a member

• German: Schwarzfußindianer (de) m
• Marathi: ब्लॅकफुट m (blĕkphuṭ)
• Norwegian: svartfot m
• Swedish: svartfot (sv) c
• Unami: Sëksitas

a North American confederacy

• French: Pieds-Noirs m pl
• German: Schwarzfußindianer (de) m pl
• Marathi: ब्लॅकफुट (blĕkphuṭ)
• Swedish: svartfötterna (sv) c pl

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Translations to be checked‌: "a member or a confederacy"

• Blackfoot: Niitsítapi, ᓱᖽᐧᖿ (Siksiká)
• Navajo: Kéʼ łizhiní (plural)
• Plains Cree: ayahciyîniw

Proper noun

Blackfoot

1. The Algonquian language of these people.
2. A city, the county seat of Bingham County, Idaho, United States.

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Blackfoot, bla ⁠