Apatani English

[abjá] n. ladder; stepladder

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. abrv

[aʎã jaŋo] num. fifty

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɉǝr] v. to be playful as a dog waging its tail

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aleɁ] n. wing

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ane] n. mother (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ama

[apɨ] n. breadth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arũ] adv. near; close by

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[asuɁ] v. sneeze

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ato] n. grandfather or father in law (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɨɁ] v. forget

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axɨ ácì] n. stomach pain

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ajo] n. grandmother or mother-in-law (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bareɁ] v. snap or break, as a thread

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[buuxe] n. a variety of house rat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨɉǝr] n. market; bazaar

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[bée] v. chant; invoke

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bóo] v. pull; tug; lug; drag; draw

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[càa] v. take paddy from the granary

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[còo] v. bounce (as a ball); hop on one foot (of a human)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[daɁhiɁ-daɁmo] v. stand for a while; wait for a while

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daapo] n. a gift item on the occasion of Mida, a part of Apatani marriage ceremony

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[duɁ] v. throb; beat (as of heart)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨbe] v. eat to heart’s content; eat so much one cannot eat any more

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨɲo-mɨɲo] v. practice; rehearse

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dùuko-dako] n. accommodation; address

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎego] n. threshold; entrance

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎoɁro] n. sharp edge of the sword

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haaru hẽ] v. mourn; grieve

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haŋɨ] pron. something; a thing that is unknown or unspecified

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hɨpe hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Elatostema platyphyllum)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[haágjá] n. entrance, door

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉirɨ-ɉixe] v. rotate to and fro

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉo] v. lift; carry

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉoɁko] v. open by cutting

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karɨɁ] v. meet; greet

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kooroɁ] n. a traditional relationship on the maternal side whom a portion of meat from sacrificial animal is offered

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koro] n. saw syn. aarí

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[laɁciɁ lɨpa] n. middle finger

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁpó] n. upper arm

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lalĩ] n. footprint

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[leɁ] v. flap (of wing)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[leŋò] n. lawn; front yard; space in the village

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[luɉiɁ] adj. friendly; amicable

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lupá-luma] v. speak without a purpose; speak carelessly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[luxaɁ] v. speak wrongly

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. lugya’

[lɨɁsu] v. interchange; exchange

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨca] n. lame

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨsiɁ] n. hay; straw

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. kusu’

[marlã] n. rust

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. harti

[miɁjeɁ-goheɁ] v. signal; making gesture by winking

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mixɨ runɨ] n. a person possessed by spirit

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. mixw ronw

[mubu] n. ash; ash color

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨci] n. kite (bird)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨdu-mɨje] n. strands of hair extending down the forehead, as often kept by young women

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨʎu] v. waste; spend

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨɉaɁ] v. tear something by handing it

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨpu] v. do something inadvertently; commit mistake

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nesú] n. granary

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽdĩ] n. upper section of the village

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. neñkó

[néesu] n. wrestling

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pabú] n. valley; gully

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pacu jagɨ] n. a small cane basket used as a measure of grain

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pahe] v. make a dent by cutting

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pamɨɁ] v. cut or chop into small pieces

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pata-pabja] adj. spotted

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[patã áttò] n. a member of the labour gang in whose field it works on the day

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paxoɁ sudu] n. a long bamboo container for smoking spicy food

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paju sudu] n. bamboo container for glue (payu)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[perũ] n. bean

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pili] n. playground; open field

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[põtin] n. pen

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[pɨɉĩ] n. moth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨlo harbjã] n. full moon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨɲú] n. brain

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjapúu] n. early maturing variety of rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋeɁpĩ] v. close

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. qe’ko

[ripó-rílo] adj. striped; streaked; variegated

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. rimyo’-riso

[rɨbó arò] n. the morning after three days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨko] n. a variety of hardy perennial creeper; sweet tea vine (Gynostemma pentaphyllum)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨsi-rɨse] adj. messy; disorganized; chaotic; cluttered

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saha] n. cane rope

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. swha

[sẽ] v. wither; dry

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨre] n. wild pig; boar

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tabu ŋɨi] n. eel (Anguilliformes)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tagjɨ̃ mɨjǝr] n. matchbox

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tamaɁ] n. a variety of tree

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tanĩ] n. variety of a plant; wild sesame (Perilla frutescens)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. twniñ

[Tanɨ agũ] n. Apatani language

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taŋu] n. bee (in group)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tɨmo] v. suspend; postpone

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ugù] n. fireplace; hearth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɨŋa] n. baby

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xẽ] v. cut

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jaɁpu-jaɁlã] n. a variety of Muruñ festival considered to be of higher status

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[japũ] n. sky

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jordĩ] n. upper portion of a hill

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. yorko

[ɲagó] n. snout

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲuɁ] v. wipe (as with a cloth or a hand); rub

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[áamì] n. cat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[álì] v. plant

Speaker: Tage Kanno