Etymology

blackfella

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English fella ← Middle English blak ← Old English blæc
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*blakaz
  2. Proto-West Germanic*blak
  3. Old Englishblæc
  4. Middle Englishblak
  5. Englishblack
  6. Englishfella
  7. English todayblackfella

From black + fella.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.