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BLACK : 1: English and Scottish: chiefly from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc blaca) a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man. However Middle English blac also meant ‘pale wan’ a reflex of Old English blāc ‘pale white’ with a shortened vowel. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Blatch">Blatch</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Blick">Blick</a>. With rare exceptions it is impossible to disambiguate these antithetical senses in Middle English surnames. The same difficulty arises with <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Blake">Blake</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Block">Block</a>.2: Scottish: in Gaelic-speaking areas this name was adopted as a translation of the epithet dubh ‘dark black-(haired)’ or of various other names based on Gaelic dubh ‘black’ see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Duff">Duff</a>.3: Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames directly or indirectly derived from the adjective meaning ‘black dark’ for example German and Jewish <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Schwarz">Schwarz</a> and Slavic surnames beginning with Čern- Chern- (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Chern">Chern</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Cherne">Cherne</a>) Chorn- Crn- or Czern-.4: Swedish: nickname from black ‘pale’.5: Americanized form of Danish Blak: nickname from blak ‘pale’.6: Native American: translation into English and shortening of a personal name composed of a word meaning ‘black’ such as Lakota Sioux Četaŋ Sapa ‘Black Hawk’ (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Blackhawk">Blackhawk</a>).

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