English Explanatory Dictionary

Black Elk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An Amerindian surname.
  2. A surname from Lakota.

Word forms

Black Elk Black Elks Black-Elk Blackelk

Etymology

From black (“color”) + elk (“wapiti”). Calque of any of several indigenous languages of North America: * (Lakota): Calque of Lakota Heȟáka Sápa; from Lakota heȟáka (“elk”) + sápa (“black”).

Translations

Lakota: Heȟáka Sápa
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