Apatani English

[abba-bãkũ] n. great-grandfather

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[aʎiɁ jo] n. pork

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[aha ʎiiʎiɁ] adj. horrifying

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[ahi ácì] n. toothache

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[aɉã-bɨɲǝ] adj. fragile; soft; tender

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

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[akã ɲacú] n. lower lip

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[api-aláa] n. sap of a tree

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[apju] v. spead (a mat) on the floor

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[artĩ bɨlĩ] n. testicle

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[atobo] n. father-in-law (term of reference)

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[axeɁ] n. kidney

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Dialect: var. arxe’

[axáa] adj. old; aged; elderly

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[bareɁ] v. snap or break, as a thread

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[beɁce] v. crack; split; rapture

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[bulũ-bɨle] adj. sickly, unappetizing var. bwluñ-bwle

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Dialect: var. bwluñ-bwle

[bɨʎĩ] n. yesterday evening

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[bjakuɁ taleɁ] n. onion

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[báa] v. roll; spin; rotate

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[bée] v. chant; invoke

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[bíi] v. cascade; flow (as water)

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[car] v. boil

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[cãta] n. rice flake (esp. of newly harvested paddy)

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[ciirɨ] n. edge; brim

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Dialect: syn. lwwrw

[cuuku] adj. upside down

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[cíi] v. be extinct

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[daruu] n. summer

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[daɲi cago] n. east

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Dialect: syn. haaci

[dor] v. become a captive or a prisoner

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[dɨɲo-mɨɲo] v. practice; rehearse

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[elù] n. reed flute

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[ema] n. dream; reverie

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Dialect: var. imáa

[gõdu] n. arbitration; mediation; mediator

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[haaceɁ] n. difficult time; crisis; emergency

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Dialect: syn. haace’ swre

[haʎã sãxã meʎã] n. hibiscus (Hibiscus rosasinensis)

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[harɉeɁ] v. run over (esp. by a vehicle)

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[heló] v. let down; be disappointed

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[heŋaɁ] v. be worried about something

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[hiɁtĩ] v. bash against something

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[hɨgũ hamã] n. a variety of vegetable; Japanese parsley (Oenanthe javanica)

Example: Photo by Kanno Tage

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[hɨsã] n. grass; fodder

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[hɨɲã] v. be shy

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[hóo] v. feed (esp. an animal)

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[húu] v. whittle; scrape; shave

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[iɁŋǝr] v. snore

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[icã] n. dysentery; ailment with blood stained stool

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[ɉã] v. become fat; put on weight

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[kamra] n. room

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[koʎũ-kocũ] adj. imbalanced; fall down due to imbalance

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[kɨce] v. break by hitting or punching

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[kée] v. pole vault; jump with a pole

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[leŋò aɉi] n. rice field near the village

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Dialect: ant. jabyò aji

[li lilã] n. cicada (Cicadidae)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[lupaɁ] v. criticize; denounce; condemn; speak ill of someone

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[lɨɁ] v. shed, as leaves do from the trees

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[lɨdì] n. base; bottom; way; footprint

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[miɁla] n. tear

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[mipá sarse] n. an early ripening variety of millet mainly grown in paddy field bundhs

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[miju] n. human beings

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Dialect: syn. neha

[muɁ] v. brew (beer)

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[muɁ] v. rut (animals)

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[murto] n. metal arrowhead

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Dialect: var. morto

[mũdo] n. girlfriend; female lover

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Dialect: syn. zimuñ ant. saado

[mɨkĩ] v. show how something is done; demonstrate

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[naa] v. collect; gather; muster

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[paɁkǝr] v. encircle; surround; enclose

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[papo] adj. incomplete; not full

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[pẽgu] v. warm

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[piɁreɁ] v. sharpen; hone; whet

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[pĩbè] n. snow

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Dialect: var. peñbè

[poorò] adj. big, of cylinderical objects

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Dialect: ant. poozó

[purò] adj. big (of spherical objects)

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Dialect: ant. puzó

[pɨge] n. barbet

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[pɨɉoda] adv. later on; after sometime

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[ŋarsi] v. chuckle; laugh quietly or inwardly

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[ŋur] v. move something heavy using lever

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[rũ] v. be mad; go insane; become crazy

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Dialect: var. roñ

[ríi] v. sew; stitch

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[sãtǝr] n. a variety of glass bead

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[sosǝr] adj. shrill (of voice); high pitched; thin voice

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Dialect: ant. bañbañ

[soɲó] adj. thin (of objects like a thread)

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Dialect: ant. sorò

[supũ] v. ceremonial smearing of sacrificial animals with rice powder

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[sɨ] v. die

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[sɨpja] n. dhole; Asiatic wild dog

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[sɨso] n. wild cat

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[taɁmú] n. betel

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[tabe] n. sugarcane plant

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twbe

[taɉu-rijã] n. variety of a plant; Job’s tear

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[taxeɁ] n. a variety of cane

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[taxɨɁ] n. head louse

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[ubúu] n. hole

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[utũ bulũ] adj. chubby; healthy

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Dialect: var. tatuñ buluñ

[xapú] v. peel off

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[xooló] adj. main; supreme; principal; chief; head

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[xée] v. fry; roast

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[jarlo] v. calm someone down

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[jormɨɁ] n. dried chili pepper

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[ɲaa] v. point; aim; direct

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[ɲaanɨ] n. general term for maternal uncles

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[árù] adj. coarse; rough; large ant. amw’

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