Blackfoot — top 667 words
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| # | Blackfoot | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | hello (opens a conversation) | |
| 2 | hello, how is everything? | |
| 3 | see you later; goodbye | |
| 4 | goodbye (fuller written form) | |
| 5 | goodbye (contracted spoken form) | |
| 6 | what is your name? | |
| 7 | my name is ... | |
| 8 | where are you from? | |
| 9 | I am from ... | |
| 10 | good morning | |
| 11 | all is well | |
| 12 | all is not well | |
| 13 | did you sleep well? | |
| 14 | how are things? | |
| 15 | what are you doing? | |
| 16 | what are you doing? (to a group) | |
| 17 | I am going to ... | |
| 18 | I will go to ... | |
| 19 | I went to ... | |
| 20 | where are you going? | |
| 21 | where will you go? | |
| 22 | where did you go? | |
| 23 | are you okay? | |
| 24 | did you get hurt? | |
| 25 | where are you from? (fuller form) | |
| 26 | what does that mean? | |
| 27 | what is on your mind? | |
| 28 | what is the difference between ...? | |
| 29 | are you angry? | |
| 30 | how do you say this in Blackfoot? | |
| 31 | can you speak slowly? | |
| 32 | I am walking about | |
| 33 | I will be walking about | |
| 34 | we are walking about | |
| 35 | what are you going to do? | |
| 36 | no | |
| 37 | yes | |
| 38 | ok now | |
| 39 | who? | |
| 40 | you (singular) | |
| 41 | I, me (independent pronoun) | |
| 42 | life fulfilled | |
| 43 | long life | |
| 44 | prayer | |
| 45 | come in! (to one person) | |
| 46 | come in! (to more than one) | |
| 47 | go outside! (to one person) | |
| 48 | go outside! (to more than one) | |
| 49 | come here! | |
| 50 | come here! (to more than one) | |
| 51 | go away! | |
| 52 | sit down! | |
| 53 | sit down! (to more than one) | |
| 54 | sit down! (variant spelling) | |
| 55 | stand up! | |
| 56 | stand up! (variant spelling) | |
| 57 | stand up! (to more than one) | |
| 58 | open the door! | |
| 59 | close the door! | |
| 60 | eat! (to one person) | |
| 61 | eat! (to more than one) | |
| 62 | eat! (short form used with children) | |
| 63 | drink! (to one person) | |
| 64 | drink! (to more than one) | |
| 65 | drink! (short form) | |
| 66 | give it to me! | |
| 67 | give it to him or her! | |
| 68 | wait! | |
| 69 | wait! (to more than one) | |
| 70 | wake up! | |
| 71 | get up! | |
| 72 | get up from sitting or lying down! | |
| 73 | wash your face! | |
| 74 | wash your hands! | |
| 75 | brush your teeth! | |
| 76 | comb your hair! | |
| 77 | go to sleep! | |
| 78 | go outside and play! | |
| 79 | help me! | |
| 80 | help me! (short form) | |
| 81 | help him or her! | |
| 82 | wash the dishes! | |
| 83 | clean up! tidy up! | |
| 84 | clean up your bedroom! | |
| 85 | put your clothes on! | |
| 86 | put your coat on! | |
| 87 | put your shoes on! | |
| 88 | sit still! | |
| 89 | sit and listen! | |
| 90 | go and sit down! | |
| 91 | sit here! | |
| 92 | sit there! | |
| 93 | look at me! | |
| 94 | listen! | |
| 95 | hurry up! | |
| 96 | let's go! | |
| 97 | turn on the lights! | |
| 98 | put it away! | |
| 99 | throw it away! | |
| 100 | go ahead, do it! | |
| 101 | try hard! | |
| 102 | line up! | |
| 103 | look at ... (imperative used with a demonstrative) | |
| 104 | look at that ... | |
| 105 | one | |
| 106 | two | |
| 107 | three | |
| 108 | four | |
| 109 | five | |
| 110 | six | |
| 111 | seven | |
| 112 | eight | |
| 113 | nine | |
| 114 | ten | |
| 115 | eleven | |
| 116 | twelve | |
| 117 | thirteen | |
| 118 | fourteen | |
| 119 | fifteen | |
| 120 | sixteen | |
| 121 | seventeen | |
| 122 | eighteen | |
| 123 | nineteen | |
| 124 | twenty | |
| 125 | thirty | |
| 126 | forty | |
| 127 | fifty | |
| 128 | sixty | |
| 129 | seventy | |
| 130 | eighty | |
| 131 | ninety | |
| 132 | one hundred | |
| 133 | one (counting animals) | |
| 134 | two (counting animals) | |
| 135 | three (counting animals) | |
| 136 | four (counting animals) | |
| 137 | five (counting animals) | |
| 138 | six (counting animals) | |
| 139 | seven (counting animals) | |
| 140 | eight (counting animals) | |
| 141 | nine (counting animals) | |
| 142 | ten (counting animals) | |
| 143 | one person | |
| 144 | two people | |
| 145 | one dog | |
| 146 | black (it is black) | |
| 147 | white (it is white) | |
| 148 | red (it is red) | |
| 149 | yellow (it is yellow) | |
| 150 | orange (it is orange) | |
| 151 | blue (it is blue) | |
| 152 | green (it is green) | |
| 153 | brown (it is brown) | |
| 154 | purple (it is purple) | |
| 155 | pink (it is pink) | |
| 156 | grey (it is grey) | |
| 157 | black (colour root) | |
| 158 | white (colour root) | |
| 159 | white (second colour root) | |
| 160 | red (colour root) | |
| 161 | yellow (colour root) | |
| 162 | blue or green (colour root) | |
| 163 | brown (colour root) | |
| 164 | purple (colour root) | |
| 165 | it is red (animate form) | |
| 166 | it is black (animate form) | |
| 167 | man; also a leader or chief | |
| 168 | woman | |
| 169 | boy | |
| 170 | girl | |
| 171 | old woman | |
| 172 | old man | |
| 173 | child | |
| 174 | baby (swaddled infant) | |
| 175 | person (noun stem) | |
| 176 | a person (animate singular) | |
| 177 | people (animate plural) | |
| 178 | woman who is a leader or chief | |
| 179 | woman leader; queen | |
| 180 | leader who wears a crown; king | |
| 181 | leader who wears the treaty medallion | |
| 182 | council members (who wear the red stripe) | |
| 183 | white man | |
| 184 | Black man | |
| 185 | Black woman | |
| 186 | Hutterite (describes the round beards) | |
| 187 | Old Man, the Blackfoot trickster-creator figure | |
| 188 | my father | |
| 189 | my mother (also used for aunt) | |
| 190 | my younger sibling (male speaker) | |
| 191 | my younger sibling (female speaker) | |
| 192 | my older brother | |
| 193 | my older sister | |
| 194 | my child | |
| 195 | my children | |
| 196 | my daughter | |
| 197 | my daughters | |
| 198 | my son | |
| 199 | my sons | |
| 200 | my grandchild | |
| 201 | my grandchildren | |
| 202 | my family | |
| 203 | daughter (alternative term of address) | |
| 204 | son (alternative term of address) | |
| 205 | your father | |
| 206 | your mother | |
| 207 | your younger sibling (male) | |
| 208 | your younger sibling (female) | |
| 209 | your older brother | |
| 210 | your older sister | |
| 211 | his or her father | |
| 212 | his or her mother | |
| 213 | his younger sibling | |
| 214 | her younger sibling | |
| 215 | his or her older brother | |
| 216 | his or her older sister | |
| 217 | our father | |
| 218 | our mother | |
| 219 | our younger brother | |
| 220 | our younger sister | |
| 221 | our older brother | |
| 222 | our older sister | |
| 223 | our grandparent | |
| 224 | my wife | |
| 225 | my husband | |
| 226 | my son-in-law | |
| 227 | my daughter-in-law | |
| 228 | my brother-in-law (a man's sister's husband) | |
| 229 | my brother-in-law (a man's wife's brother) | |
| 230 | brother-in-law of a woman | |
| 231 | sister-in-law of a man | |
| 232 | my grandparent | |
| 233 | your grandparent | |
| 234 | his or her grandparent | |
| 235 | my grandparents | |
| 236 | our grandparent (not including you) | |
| 237 | our grandparent (including you) | |
| 238 | my mother (accented spelling) | |
| 239 | your mother (accented spelling) | |
| 240 | his or her mother | |
| 241 | my husband (as in Frantz's example sentence) | |
| 242 | my daughters (as in Frantz's example sentence) | |
| 243 | girls | |
| 244 | homosexual man (term collected in the 2024 Galt book) | |
| 245 | person transitioning to female | |
| 246 | person transitioning to male | |
| 247 | masculine female | |
| 248 | arm, hand (noun stem) | |
| 249 | my hand | |
| 250 | your hand | |
| 251 | his or her hand | |
| 252 | my hands | |
| 253 | your hands | |
| 254 | his or her hands | |
| 255 | my foot | |
| 256 | your foot | |
| 257 | his or her foot | |
| 258 | one's foot (indefinite possessor) | |
| 259 | coyote | |
| 260 | wolf | |
| 261 | wolf (lit. 'big coyote') | |
| 262 | fox | |
| 263 | red fox | |
| 264 | badger | |
| 265 | mouse | |
| 266 | skunk | |
| 267 | weasel | |
| 268 | ermine (weasel in its white winter coat) | |
| 269 | rabbit | |
| 270 | gopher, prairie dog | |
| 271 | cougar | |
| 272 | bobcat, lynx | |
| 273 | rattlesnake | |
| 274 | snake | |
| 275 | bear | |
| 276 | porcupine | |
| 277 | deer | |
| 278 | white-tailed deer | |
| 279 | moose | |
| 280 | elk | |
| 281 | elk (animate singular) | |
| 282 | elk (animate plural) | |
| 283 | antelope | |
| 284 | buffalo, bison | |
| 285 | buffalo (plural) | |
| 286 | female buffalo | |
| 287 | male buffalo | |
| 288 | bull elk | |
| 289 | the animals that walk on the earth | |
| 290 | frog | |
| 291 | muskrat | |
| 292 | river otter | |
| 293 | beaver | |
| 294 | chicken | |
| 295 | cat | |
| 296 | cat (noun stem) | |
| 297 | donkey (describes the big ears) | |
| 298 | pig | |
| 299 | hippopotamus (lit. 'water pig') | |
| 300 | horse (lit. 'elk dog') | |
| 301 | saddle horse, one's own mount | |
| 302 | bull | |
| 303 | dog | |
| 304 | the dog (animate singular) | |
| 305 | cow | |
| 306 | fish | |
| 307 | turtle | |
| 308 | bird | |
| 309 | bat | |
| 310 | bat (lit. 'bad eagle') | |
| 311 | Canada goose | |
| 312 | eagle (any eagle) | |
| 313 | bald eagle | |
| 314 | golden eagle | |
| 315 | crow | |
| 316 | raven | |
| 317 | owl (also called the Night Crier) | |
| 318 | owl (accented spelling) | |
| 319 | wild turkey | |
| 320 | pigeon, dove | |
| 321 | duck | |
| 322 | prairie chicken | |
| 323 | magpie | |
| 324 | nighthawk | |
| 325 | red-tailed hawk | |
| 326 | Swainson's hawk | |
| 327 | osprey | |
| 328 | black-capped chickadee | |
| 329 | barred owl | |
| 330 | blue jay | |
| 331 | horned lark | |
| 332 | great horned owl | |
| 333 | mallard duck | |
| 334 | pelican | |
| 335 | yellow-headed blackbird | |
| 336 | woodpecker | |
| 337 | meadowlark | |
| 338 | robin | |
| 339 | coot | |
| 340 | red-winged blackbird | |
| 341 | loon | |
| 342 | hummingbird | |
| 343 | insects; small animals of the ground | |
| 344 | bee | |
| 345 | ant | |
| 346 | spider | |
| 347 | spider (second term) | |
| 348 | spider (lit. 'ground deer') | |
| 349 | fly | |
| 350 | black fly | |
| 351 | mosquito | |
| 352 | mosquito (second term) | |
| 353 | grasshopper | |
| 354 | lizard | |
| 355 | butterfly | |
| 356 | earthworm | |
| 357 | firefly | |
| 358 | beetle | |
| 359 | sun | |
| 360 | moon | |
| 361 | stars | |
| 362 | the Morning Star | |
| 363 | the Wolf Trail (the Milky Way) | |
| 364 | thunder | |
| 365 | mountain | |
| 366 | mountains | |
| 367 | earth, land | |
| 368 | dirt | |
| 369 | river | |
| 370 | river (all rivers) | |
| 371 | stream, backwater | |
| 372 | sky | |
| 373 | snow | |
| 374 | water | |
| 375 | rock, stone | |
| 376 | the stone (inanimate singular) | |
| 377 | burrow | |
| 378 | coulee | |
| 379 | bunch grass; grassland | |
| 380 | steep hillside | |
| 381 | meadow | |
| 382 | timber growing out of the rocks | |
| 383 | river bottom | |
| 384 | flood | |
| 385 | hills, high land | |
| 386 | prairie, plains | |
| 387 | caves | |
| 388 | cloud (noun stem) | |
| 389 | the cloud (inanimate singular) | |
| 390 | clouds (inanimate plural) | |
| 391 | it is windy | |
| 392 | it was windy | |
| 393 | it will be windy | |
| 394 | there is a chinook wind | |
| 395 | there will be a chinook wind | |
| 396 | it is raining | |
| 397 | it rained | |
| 398 | it will rain | |
| 399 | it is snowing | |
| 400 | it snowed | |
| 401 | it will snow | |
| 402 | it is a nice day | |
| 403 | it was a nice day | |
| 404 | it will be a nice day | |
| 405 | winter | |
| 406 | spring | |
| 407 | summer | |
| 408 | autumn, fall | |
| 409 | tomorrow | |
| 410 | yesterday | |
| 411 | Sunday (holy day) | |
| 412 | Monday (the day after the holy day) | |
| 413 | Tuesday | |
| 414 | Wednesday | |
| 415 | Thursday (old ration day) | |
| 416 | Friday (fish day) | |
| 417 | Saturday (the day before the holy day) | |
| 418 | January (old moon) | |
| 419 | February (eagle moon) | |
| 420 | March (duck moon) | |
| 421 | April (frog moon) | |
| 422 | May (flower blossom moon) | |
| 423 | June (long rains) | |
| 424 | July (when the blueberries ripen) | |
| 425 | August (when the chokecherries ripen) | |
| 426 | August (second attested name) | |
| 427 | September (deer moon) | |
| 428 | October (fall moon) | |
| 429 | November (when the cold arrives) | |
| 430 | December (long nights) | |
| 431 | north | |
| 432 | south | |
| 433 | west | |
| 434 | east | |
| 435 | up, upper floor | |
| 436 | the heavens, above | |
| 437 | down, lower level | |
| 438 | the ground | |
| 439 | chokecherry | |
| 440 | showy milkweed | |
| 441 | silver sage, pasture sage ('women's sage') | |
| 442 | prairie sage, sagebrush ('male sage') | |
| 443 | pincushion cactus | |
| 444 | raspberry | |
| 445 | juniper berry | |
| 446 | honey (lit. 'bee excretion') | |
| 447 | leaves | |
| 448 | wild strawberry | |
| 449 | sweetgrass | |
| 450 | wild licorice | |
| 451 | dandelion ('pretty flower of the sun') | |
| 452 | cottonwood trees | |
| 453 | cedar | |
| 454 | shooting star (the flower) | |
| 455 | lodgepole pine | |
| 456 | wild mint | |
| 457 | tobacco | |
| 458 | prairie smoke (the flower) | |
| 459 | prairie crocus | |
| 460 | silver buffaloberry | |
| 461 | yarrow | |
| 462 | rabbit willow | |
| 463 | asparagus | |
| 464 | buffalo bean | |
| 465 | sweet pine | |
| 466 | fireberry hawthorn | |
| 467 | prairie rose; tomato | |
| 468 | prickly pear cactus | |
| 469 | wild bergamot | |
| 470 | saskatoon berry ('the one berry') | |
| 471 | wolf willow | |
| 472 | golden currant | |
| 473 | nodding onion | |
| 474 | red osier dogwood | |
| 475 | berry | |
| 476 | blueberries | |
| 477 | pop, fizzy drink | |
| 478 | tea ('black liquid') | |
| 479 | tea (Aamsskaapipikani form) | |
| 480 | herbal tea | |
| 481 | coffee | |
| 482 | coffee (Siksika, Piikani and Kainai form) | |
| 483 | coffee (Aamsskaapipikani form) | |
| 484 | coffee (New Blackfoot contracted form) | |
| 485 | milk | |
| 486 | pepper | |
| 487 | salt | |
| 488 | bacon | |
| 489 | strawberry | |
| 490 | lettuce | |
| 491 | bread | |
| 492 | ice cream | |
| 493 | corn | |
| 494 | peach | |
| 495 | banana | |
| 496 | apple | |
| 497 | orange (the fruit) | |
| 498 | potato (Siksika and Kainai form) | |
| 499 | potato (Piikani and Blackfeet form) | |
| 500 | meat (noun stem) | |
| 501 | the meat (inanimate singular) | |
| 502 | meats | |
| 503 | pemmican (dry meat, berries and fat) | |
| 504 | I am eating | |
| 505 | I will eat | |
| 506 | I ate | |
| 507 | I am drinking | |
| 508 | I will drink | |
| 509 | I drank | |
| 510 | drink (verb root) | |
| 511 | he or she is drinking | |
| 512 | he or she will drink | |
| 513 | he or she drank | |
| 514 | to eat something (transitive inanimate verb) | |
| 515 | I like to eat | |
| 516 | tipi, the Niitsitapi lodge | |
| 517 | lodge (any lodge) | |
| 518 | a white man's house | |
| 519 | house (noun stem) | |
| 520 | window | |
| 521 | door | |
| 522 | chair | |
| 523 | couch, sofa ('long chair') | |
| 524 | stuffed chair | |
| 525 | very soft chair | |
| 526 | armchair | |
| 527 | seating | |
| 528 | table | |
| 529 | bed | |
| 530 | bedroom | |
| 531 | lamp | |
| 532 | living room | |
| 533 | kitchen | |
| 534 | cupboard | |
| 535 | washroom | |
| 536 | sink | |
| 537 | kitchen sink | |
| 538 | bathtub | |
| 539 | refrigerator | |
| 540 | oven | |
| 541 | television | |
| 542 | radio ('we hear news from afar with it') | |
| 543 | telephone ('we talk with it') | |
| 544 | book | |
| 545 | pail | |
| 546 | robe | |
| 547 | shoes | |
| 548 | knife | |
| 549 | parfleche, rawhide container | |
| 550 | travois made from tipi poles | |
| 551 | buffalo-calling stone | |
| 552 | automobile ('it moves on its own') | |
| 553 | car ('we ride in it') | |
| 554 | truck ('we haul with it') | |
| 555 | the box on the back of a truck | |
| 556 | motorcycle (describes the backfiring) | |
| 557 | bicycle (describes the pedalling) | |
| 558 | airplane (noun stem) | |
| 559 | the airplane (inanimate singular) | |
| 560 | airplanes (inanimate plural) | |
| 561 | doctor ('one who makes us feel better') | |
| 562 | woman doctor; nurse | |
| 563 | teacher | |
| 564 | teacher (second attested form) | |
| 565 | priest ('holy white man') | |
| 566 | nun ('holy white woman') | |
| 567 | police officer (man) | |
| 568 | police officer (woman) | |
| 569 | Red Coat, RCMP officer | |
| 570 | the Redcoats | |
| 571 | Indian agent | |
| 572 | to work (animate intransitive verb) | |
| 573 | the Blackfoot language | |
| 574 | the Blackfoot people ('the real people') | |
| 575 | our way of life | |
| 576 | the people who speak the real language | |
| 577 | Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation | |
| 578 | Kainai (Blood) Nation, 'Many Leaders' | |
| 579 | Piikani Nation | |
| 580 | Northern Piikani | |
| 581 | Southern Piikani, the Blackfeet Nation in Montana | |
| 582 | the Kainai land | |
| 583 | a Kainai person | |
| 584 | a Kainai woman | |
| 585 | a Kainai child | |
| 586 | a Piikani person | |
| 587 | a Piikani woman | |
| 588 | a Siksika person | |
| 589 | a Siksika woman | |
| 590 | the Source of Life | |
| 591 | Spirit Beings | |
| 592 | Earth Beings | |
| 593 | Water Beings | |
| 594 | Above Beings | |
| 595 | the Plains people | |
| 596 | the Sun Dance | |
| 597 | buffalo jump | |
| 598 | women's buffalo jump | |
| 599 | circle camp, when everyone camps in one place | |
| 600 | favoured children | |
| 601 | a specially honoured child | |
| 602 | blood clot | |
| 603 | smallpox | |
| 604 | measles | |
| 605 | tuberculosis | |
| 606 | Our Land | |
| 607 | Chief Mountain | |
| 608 | the Sweet Grass (Sweet Pine) Hills | |
| 609 | the Cypress Hills | |
| 610 | the Great Sand Hills | |
| 611 | Writing-On-Stone | |
| 612 | Waterton | |
| 613 | the Oldman River | |
| 614 | the Belly River | |
| 615 | the Milk River | |
| 616 | the St. Mary River | |
| 617 | the North Saskatchewan River ('Elk River') | |
| 618 | Red Deer, Alberta ('Elk River') | |
| 619 | the Yellowstone / Musselshell River | |
| 620 | Fort Macleod | |
| 621 | Cardston | |
| 622 | Magrath | |
| 623 | Calgary | |
| 624 | Lethbridge ('black rocks') | |
| 625 | Edmonton | |
| 626 | Pincher Creek; High River | |
| 627 | here (near the speaker) | |
| 628 | over there | |
| 629 | this (animate, near speaker) | |
| 630 | this (animate) | |
| 631 | that (animate) | |
| 632 | that (animate singular) | |
| 633 | those (animate plural) | |
| 634 | these (animate plural) | |
| 635 | those (animate plural, second form) | |
| 636 | those (inanimate plural) | |
| 637 | animate singular noun ending | |
| 638 | animate plural noun ending | |
| 639 | inanimate singular noun ending | |
| 640 | inanimate plural noun ending | |
| 641 | he will rope | |
| 642 | she will sponsor a Sundance | |
| 643 | my father (Frantz's spelling, showing the long nn) | |
| 644 | he is good | |
| 645 | it is an arrow | |
| 646 | it is a fig | |
| 647 | he or she is not resting | |
| 648 | he or she runs | |
| 649 | to sleep | |
| 650 | he or she is sleeping | |
| 651 | to sing | |
| 652 | he or she speaks | |
| 653 | he says | |
| 654 | he or she acts badly | |
| 655 | it bit itself | |
| 656 | I love them (direct form) | |
| 657 | they love me (inverse form) | |
| 658 | I arrive from somewhere (Old Blackfoot) | |
| 659 | I arrive from somewhere (New Blackfoot) | |
| 660 | what is she doing? (Old Blackfoot) | |
| 661 | what is she doing? (New Blackfoot) | |
| 662 | I am a woman (Old Blackfoot) | |
| 663 | what is it? (written form) | |
| 664 | what is it? (spoken contracted form) | |
| 665 | I am going there (written form) | |
| 666 | I am going there (spoken contracted form) | |
| 667 | a soft, gentle breeze |