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Blackfoot

/ˈblæk.fʊt/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A member of a North American confederacy of several tribes.
  2. The Algonquian language of these people.
  3. A city, the county seat of Bingham County, Idaho, United States.
  4. A tropical American bush of the genus Melampodium.

Etymology / origin

Calque of Blackfoot Siksiká (literally “black foot”).

  1. Siksiká(bla)
  2. Blackfoot (English)
  3. Relations: calque

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