Blackfootadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈblakfʊt/, U.S.

/ˈblækˌfʊt/

Inflections: Plural unchanged, Blackfoots.

Forms: 1700s– Blackfoot, 1800s Blackfeet (plural), 1800s Blackfit (Scottish, plural). In sense B. 2 also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; partly modelled on a Cree lexical item. Etymons: black adj., foot n.

Etymology: < black adj. + foot n. In use as adjective and in sense B. 1 after Woods Cree kaskitêwaðasit, literally ‘person with black soles’ (compare quot. 1772 at black-footed adj. 2), itself after Blackfoot siksikáwa , self-designation (see Siksika n.). Compare earlier black-footed adj. With sense B. 2 compare Irish cosa dubha foot soldier, literally ‘black feet’ (1904 in Dinneen, or earlier, apparently rare), but it is unclear whether there is a connection with the Scots and Irish English word.

A. adj.

1. Of or relating to the Blackfoot, a confederacy of North American Indian peoples living on the High Plains of southern Alberta (Canada) and north western Montana (United States).The Blackfoot confederacy consists of the Siksika, Blood (or Kainai), and Peigan (or Piikani) peoples of Canada (see Siksika n., blood n. 21, Piegan n.) and the Blackfeet of Montana (Blackfeet n.).

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [adjective]

Blackfoot1790

Plains Indian1879

1790 E. Umfreville Present State Hudson's Bay (heading) 200 The Black-foot, Paegan, and Blood Indians.

1824 J. Franklin Narr. Journey Shores Polar Sea (ed. 2) I. 170 As the subjects may be interesting to philologists, I subjoin a few words of the Blackfoot language.

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. vi. 38 The story of the ‘doctor’, or the ‘Blackfoot medicine-man’.

1885 Nature 1 Oct. 531/1 The country which the Blackfoot tribes claimed properly as their own comprised the valleys and plains along the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains.

1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies xxiv. 212 The teepees of Sarcee, Stony and Blackfoot Indians.

1969 Observer 18 May (Colour Suppl.) 25/2 The entire Blackfoot tribe did not habitually engage in war because individual members possessed ‘warlike’ personalities.

1993 Beaver June–July 42/2 Kit-Fox, a Blackfoot girl whose family helped drive herds of buffalo over the precipice at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in southern Alberta.

2007 L. J. Dempsey Blackfoot War Art viii. 275 Greeted at the station by a Blackfoot man in a feathered headdress and white buckskins.

2. Of or relating to the language of the Blackfoot.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Algonquian languages

Shawnee1674

Cree1744

Potawatomi1789

Nipissing1793

Miami1804

Algic1827

Beothuk1842

Blackfoot1845

Yurok1851

Passamaquoddy1856

Plains Cree1860

Maliseet1863

Ojibwa1937

1845 Proc. Philol. Soc. 24 Jan. 38 The Blackfoot numerals, as given by Mackenzie and Umfreville, slightly differ.

1858 H. E. Ludewig & W. W. Turner Lit. Amer. Aboriginal Langs. 212 Blackfoot vocabulary.

1885 Nature 1 Oct. 532/2 It would be very desirable to trace that portion of the Blackfoot vocabulary which is not of Algonkin origin to its source in the language of some other linguistic stock.

1890 J. W. Tims Gram. & Dict. Blackfoot People 2 (header) Blackfoot grammar.

1989 D. G. Frantz (title) Blackfoot dictionary of stems, roots, and affixes.

1997 D. G. Frantz Blackfoot Gram. i. 3 An alternative way to indicate Blackfoot pitch accent is by underlining accented vowels.

2007 C. Moseley Encycl. World's Endangered Langs. 35 All of the schools on the three reserves in Canada have Blackfoot language classes.

B. n.

a. A member of this confederacy; (also) = Blackfeet n.

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [noun] > Algonquian

Piegan1772

Cheyenne1778

Fall Indian1779

Blackfoot1796

Minnetaree1805

Plains Cree1810

Siksika1843

blood1844

Prairie Cree1863

Gros Ventre1868

Wood Cree1885

Wood Cree1910

1796 Sask. Jrnls. in Publ. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. (1967) 26 272 Two Irroqui Indians set off for the other river accompanied by Blackfoots for guides.

1804 W. Clark Jrnl. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III. 444 Blackfo [o] t rove near the Rock mountains on the East Side on the waters of the Missouries.

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. vi. 38 The Blackfoot fell, and rolled about in the agonies of death.

1890 J. W. Tims Gram. & Dict. Blackfoot People Introd. p. v The Blackfeet (called by the French, Pieds Noirs, and by the Germans Schwarzfüsse) are so called from their moccasins being blackened by the soil.

1969 Observer 18 May (Colour Suppl.) 25/2 Calling a Blackfoot, for example, ‘warlike’ reveals nothing.

2002 B. A. Gray-Kanatiiosh Blackfoot 30 Even though the Blackfoot are divided by two countries, they are still family.

b. The Plains Algonquian language of the Blackfoot people.Siksika, Blood (or Kainai), and Peigan (or Piikani) are dialects of Blackfoot.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Algonquian > Algonquian languages

Illinois1703

Ojibwa1743

Chippewa1791

Shawnee1792

Miami-Illinois1804

Natick1822

Delaware1826

Munsee1828

Nanticoke1845

Blackfoot1846

Pequot1848

Potawatomi1848

Wiyot1851

Montagnais1852

Passamaquoddy1856

Abenaki1858

Narragansett1866

Lenape1888

Penobscot1891

Powhatan1895

Menominee1896

Micmac1902

Meskwaki1907

Maliseet1912

Cheyenne1933

Kickapoo1933

Massachusett1933

Mohican1933

Sauk1933

Virginia Algonquian1971

Ottawa1982

1846 W. D. Stewart & J. W. Webb Altowan I. 215 He stopped a moment and hollowed out in Blackfoot, that he had avenged the death of his comrades.

1885 Nature 1 Oct. 531/1 (table) My horse (or dog), Blackfoot n'otas, Cree n't'em.

1890 J. W. Tims Gram. & Dict. Blackfoot People 1 There are two or three ways of asking a question in Blackfoot.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 A few detached languages in the west: Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Arapaho.

1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 78 Languages of sure affiliation, e.g. Blackfoot (Algonkian).

2007 C. Moseley Encycl. World's Endangered Langs. 35 In Canada, 5,605 first-language speakers of Blackfoot were counted in the 1996 census.

2. Scottish and Irish English. A go-between in a courtship or love affair; a matchmaker. Chiefly with lower-case initial. Now rare.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > match-making > [noun] > match-maker

broker1377

marriage-maker1591

proxenete1609

matcher1611

ring-carriera1616

matchmaker1638

match-broker1640

marriage broker1662

marriage-bawd1676

match-monger1680

flesh-broker1699

wife broker1700

black-sole1725

marriage-monger?1748

Blackfoot1808

blackleg1825

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Black-foot, a sort of match-maker; one who goes between a lover and his mistress, endeavouring to bring the fair one to compliance,..pronounced black-fit.

1814 C. I. Johnstone Saxon & Gaël I. xii. 161 I can get naething out o' her: thinkin' ye might be black-fit or her secretar, I was just wissin', o' a' things to see ye a wee gliff.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. viii. 237 I could never have expected this intervention of a proxeneta, which the vulgar translate black-foot, of such eminent dignity.

1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. vii. ix. 94 Continued the blackfoot: ‘then she made some observation about the shortness of your mutual acquaintance.’

1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 12 May 117/1 Employed by a friend to act as go-between, or, as it is termed in Scotland, black-fit, or black-foot, in a correspondence which he was carrying on with a young lady.

1873 D. Gilmour Reminisc. Pen Folk (ed. 2) 165 James Gillespie outlived Sarah; the following describes his second courtship, which..is given in the words of his ‘Blackfoot’.

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 26/2 Blackfoot,..a go-between, especially a matchmaker; a friend who accompanies a young man going courting.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	blackfoot
释义	Blackfootadj.n. Brit. /ˈblakfʊt/, U.S. /ˈblækˌfʊt/ Inflections: Plural unchanged, Blackfoots. Forms: 1700s– Blackfoot, 1800s Blackfeet (plural), 1800s Blackfit (Scottish, plural). In sense B. 2 also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; partly modelled on a Cree lexical item. Etymons: black adj., foot n. Etymology: < black adj. + foot n. In use as adjective and in sense B. 1 after Woods Cree kaskitêwaðasit, literally ‘person with black soles’ (compare quot. 1772 at black-footed adj. 2), itself after Blackfoot siksikáwa , self-designation (see Siksika n.). Compare earlier black-footed adj. With sense B. 2 compare Irish cosa dubha foot soldier, literally ‘black feet’ (1904 in Dinneen, or earlier, apparently rare), but it is unclear whether there is a connection with the Scots and Irish English word. A. adj. 1. Of or relating to the Blackfoot, a confederacy of North American Indian peoples living on the High Plains of southern Alberta (Canada) and north western Montana (United States).The Blackfoot confederacy consists of the Siksika, Blood (or Kainai), and Peigan (or Piikani) peoples of Canada (see Siksika n., blood n. 21, Piegan n.) and the Blackfeet of Montana (Blackfeet n.). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [adjective] Blackfoot1790 Plains Indian1879 1790 E. Umfreville Present State Hudson's Bay (heading) 200 The Black-foot, Paegan, and Blood Indians. 1824 J. Franklin Narr. Journey Shores Polar Sea (ed. 2) I. 170 As the subjects may be interesting to philologists, I subjoin a few words of the Blackfoot language. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. vi. 38 The story of the ‘doctor’, or the ‘Blackfoot medicine-man’. 1885 Nature 1 Oct. 531/1 The country which the Blackfoot tribes claimed properly as their own comprised the valleys and plains along the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains. 1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies xxiv. 212 The teepees of Sarcee, Stony and Blackfoot Indians. 1969 Observer 18 May (Colour Suppl.) 25/2 The entire Blackfoot tribe did not habitually engage in war because individual members possessed ‘warlike’ personalities. 1993 Beaver June–July 42/2 Kit-Fox, a Blackfoot girl whose family helped drive herds of buffalo over the precipice at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in southern Alberta. 2007 L. J. Dempsey Blackfoot War Art viii. 275 Greeted at the station by a Blackfoot man in a feathered headdress and white buckskins. 2. Of or relating to the language of the Blackfoot. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Algonquian languages Shawnee1674 Cree1744 Potawatomi1789 Nipissing1793 Miami1804 Algic1827 Beothuk1842 Blackfoot1845 Yurok1851 Passamaquoddy1856 Plains Cree1860 Maliseet1863 Ojibwa1937 1845 Proc. Philol. Soc. 24 Jan. 38 The Blackfoot numerals, as given by Mackenzie and Umfreville, slightly differ. 1858 H. E. Ludewig & W. W. Turner Lit. Amer. Aboriginal Langs. 212 Blackfoot vocabulary. 1885 Nature 1 Oct. 532/2 It would be very desirable to trace that portion of the Blackfoot vocabulary which is not of Algonkin origin to its source in the language of some other linguistic stock. 1890 J. W. Tims Gram. & Dict. Blackfoot People 2 (header) Blackfoot grammar. 1989 D. G. Frantz (title) Blackfoot dictionary of stems, roots, and affixes. 1997 D. G. Frantz Blackfoot Gram. i. 3 An alternative way to indicate Blackfoot pitch accent is by underlining accented vowels. 2007 C. Moseley Encycl. World's Endangered Langs. 35 All of the schools on the three reserves in Canada have Blackfoot language classes. B. n. 1. a. A member of this confederacy; (also) = Blackfeet n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [noun] > Algonquian Piegan1772 Cheyenne1778 Fall Indian1779 Blackfoot1796 Minnetaree1805 Plains Cree1810 Siksika1843 blood1844 Prairie Cree1863 Gros Ventre1868 Wood Cree1885 Wood Cree1910 1796 Sask. Jrnls. in Publ. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. (1967) 26 272 Two Irroqui Indians set off for the other river accompanied by Blackfoots for guides. 1804 W. Clark Jrnl. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III. 444 Blackfo [o] t rove near the Rock mountains on the East Side on the waters of the Missouries. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. vi. 38 The Blackfoot fell, and rolled about in the agonies of death. 1890 J. W. Tims Gram. & Dict. Blackfoot People Introd. p. v The Blackfeet (called by the French, Pieds Noirs, and by the Germans Schwarzfüsse) are so called from their moccasins being blackened by the soil. 1969 Observer 18 May (Colour Suppl.) 25/2 Calling a Blackfoot, for example, ‘warlike’ reveals nothing. 2002 B. A. Gray-Kanatiiosh Blackfoot 30 Even though the Blackfoot are divided by two countries, they are still family. b. The Plains Algonquian language of the Blackfoot people.Siksika, Blood (or Kainai), and Peigan (or Piikani) are dialects of Blackfoot. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Algonquian > Algonquian languages Illinois1703 Ojibwa1743 Chippewa1791 Shawnee1792 Miami-Illinois1804 Natick1822 Delaware1826 Munsee1828 Nanticoke1845 Blackfoot1846 Pequot1848 Potawatomi1848 Wiyot1851 Montagnais1852 Passamaquoddy1856 Abenaki1858 Narragansett1866 Lenape1888 Penobscot1891 Powhatan1895 Menominee1896 Micmac1902 Meskwaki1907 Maliseet1912 Cheyenne1933 Kickapoo1933 Massachusett1933 Mohican1933 Sauk1933 Virginia Algonquian1971 Ottawa1982 1846 W. D. Stewart & J. W. Webb Altowan I. 215 He stopped a moment and hollowed out in Blackfoot, that he had avenged the death of his comrades. 1885 Nature 1 Oct. 531/1 (table) My horse (or dog), Blackfoot n'otas, Cree n't'em. 1890 J. W. Tims Gram. & Dict. Blackfoot People 1 There are two or three ways of asking a question in Blackfoot. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 A few detached languages in the west: Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. 1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 78 Languages of sure affiliation, e.g. Blackfoot (Algonkian). 2007 C. Moseley Encycl. World's Endangered Langs. 35 In Canada, 5,605 first-language speakers of Blackfoot were counted in the 1996 census. 2. Scottish and Irish English. A go-between in a courtship or love affair; a matchmaker. Chiefly with lower-case initial. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > match-making > [noun] > match-maker broker1377 marriage-maker1591 proxenete1609 matcher1611 ring-carriera1616 matchmaker1638 match-broker1640 marriage broker1662 marriage-bawd1676 match-monger1680 flesh-broker1699 wife broker1700 black-sole1725 marriage-monger?1748 Blackfoot1808 blackleg1825 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Black-foot, a sort of match-maker; one who goes between a lover and his mistress, endeavouring to bring the fair one to compliance,..pronounced black-fit. 1814 C. I. Johnstone Saxon & Gaël I. xii. 161 I can get naething out o' her: thinkin' ye might be black-fit or her secretar, I was just wissin', o' a' things to see ye a wee gliff. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. viii. 237 I could never have expected this intervention of a proxeneta, which the vulgar translate black-foot, of such eminent dignity. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. vii. ix. 94 Continued the blackfoot: ‘then she made some observation about the shortness of your mutual acquaintance.’ 1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 12 May 117/1 Employed by a friend to act as go-between, or, as it is termed in Scotland, black-fit, or black-foot, in a correspondence which he was carrying on with a young lady. 1873 D. Gilmour Reminisc. Pen Folk (ed. 2) 165 James Gillespie outlived Sarah; the following describes his second courtship, which..is given in the words of his ‘Blackfoot’. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 26/2 Blackfoot,..a go-between, especially a matchmaker; a friend who accompanies a young man going courting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1790
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