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How to use the online dictionary:
- Type what you are looking for in the search box
- Choose:
- English to Blackfoot if the text typed is in English
- Blackfoot to English if the text typed is in Blackfoot
- Advanced Options to modify the search process and results
- Click on the to perform the search
Help videos
Below are some help videos to help you work with the dictionary even better. Check them out!
English to Blackfoot search
Blackfoot to English search
Relaxed search features (Blackfoot to English search)
How to browse entries
How to browse keywords
How to browse themes
Tour of an entry – part one
Tour of an entry – part two
Tour of an entry – part three
Tour of an entry – part four
Glossing conventions and abbreviations
Below is a list of glossing conventions and abbreviations that one might come across while using the dictionary.
Gloss/abbreviation | Meaning |
---|---|
1 | First person |
2 | Second person |
21 | First person plural inclusive |
3 | (Proximate) third person |
3’ | Obviative Third Person |
AI | Animate intransitive |
AIO | Animate intranstive plus object |
AN | Animate |
CN | Conjunct nominal |
CONJ | Conjunctive |
DEM | Demonstrative |
DIR | Direct |
DUR | Durative aspect |
FUT | Future |
II | Inanimate intransitive |
IMMFUT | Immediate/immeninent future |
IMP | Imperative |
IN | Inanimate |
INCH | Inchoative |
IND | Indicative |
INSTR | Intstrument |
INV | Inverse |
NMLZ | Nominalizer |
NONREF | Non-referring |
OBV | Obviative |
OT | Time other than speech act |
PERF | Perfective aspect |
PL | Plural |
PRO | Pronoun |
PROX | Proximate |
PST | Past |
REFL | Reflexive |
SBJV | Subjunctive |
SG | Singular |
TA | Transitive animate |
TH.TI | Transitive inanimate theme suffix |
TI | Transitive inanimate |
VBLZ | Verbalizer |
X>Y | X acts on Y |