Apatani English

[aháa duɁ] n. heartbeat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[akì tɨxè] n. flea

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. akì taxw

[alɨɁ] v. insert; put

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amo] n. remaining grains of unhusked rice grains among husked ones

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apel] n. apple

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[asè] v. wash; clean

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axɨ̃-amɨ] adv. confused; disconcerted; befuddled; dumbfounded

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨso-kaco] n. forbidden; proscribed; prohibited

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjarbó] v. jump across

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjajũ] n. tomato; potato

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. beyuñ

[bjoɁdá] adj. bright; brilliant

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjɨ] n. a species of bamboo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[còoʎa] v. limp

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dema úì] n. evil spirit

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[diɉeɁ] n. portable bamboo vessel (esp. for carrying liquor)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. didu

[dĩtu] v. nod

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[duɁ] v. offer something for sale; market

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨho-luho] adj. offending

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[eneɁ] adv. without reason; without purpose; without work

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[ʎeɁpo] v. join a thread by rollin on the palms

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎoʎiɁ-cociɁ] n. rogue; an unreliable person

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. suru dozó

[garu] n. pillow

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. diñ nanw

[golu] n. lie; untruth; falsehood

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[goɲó] adj. small (of a mouth); low voice

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gorò

[haadɨ] v. get angry; annoyed; enraged

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haʎã bjajũ] n. tomato

Speaker: Nani Anga

[haɉǝr] num. thousand

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[heɁ] v. knit

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hentǝr] adv. very; exeedingly; exceptionally; immensely

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. hempvr

[hẽkur] v. regret; feel remorse for; be sorry about

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiɁxɨɨ] v. wring; twist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Example: Photo by Kanno Tage

Speaker: Nani Anga

[húu] v. whittle; scrape; shave

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ĩgja] n. space between the fireplace and the side wall of a traditional house

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaʎu-kaca] adj. unrecognizable

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kagɨ] v. learn (by seeing)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kahò] v. take note of; mark something

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaɉiɁ] adj. good to look at; good

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kapa] v. find; discover; see

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karda-bjaɲi alo] n. Friday

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karmú] v. look with anger or disapproval

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kebaɁ-kela] v. hug or embrace in an intimate way; hug in a playful way

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koŋ kolò] n. four days back

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kojũ] adv. thrusting movement of hips

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨbjoɁ] v. flash; sparkle

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨdi paju] n. glue obtained from a variety of tuber

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨle] n. river

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[káhè] adj. big; large

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. atúu

[laɁpjo] n. palm

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laŋu] n. neck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[leɁca] n. cane havershack covered with fibres from the bark of a particular tree worn during jungle expeditions or during war-related rituals

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lokũ] n. one day (term of enumeration)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[luʎe] v. slur one’s speech as when drunk

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[murũ] n. first month of the lunar year; January; name of the festival celebrated in January

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨbiɁ] v. spill; splash

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨmiɁ] v. extinguish; douse; put out (fire)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ami’

[mɨmjaɁ] v. smudge; smear

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨpeɁ] v. complete; finish

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨpjò] adj. easy (to do); good to do

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨtú] n. half burned firewood

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjamja] n. ringworm

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjogu] v. migrate; relocate; resettle

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[narũ] n. fencing (esp. of bamboo garden)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽtó] n. a house on the main street

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. niñtó ant. neñbu, niñbu

[nunuko] pron. at your (place); second person plural pronoun, possessive case

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paɁsi] v. join two ropes together to increase the length

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[padĩ] n. erosion control embankment usually of bamboo and wood along the banks of the streams

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[para] v. crawl in

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. parliñ

[patu] v. cut something into two or more pieces

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paxɨ] v. kill by cutting

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pĩcuɁ] n. bottle; elongated liquid container made from the hard hollowed and dried skin of gourd

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pĩtú] v. lift something by pinching

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[poleɁ] n. shiny; glossy; polished

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pur] v. pluck (fruits); remove

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨgja gjapúu] n. wreathed hornbill (Aceros undulatus)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨɉoda] adv. later on; after sometime

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨlo aɉã] n. new moon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨri papù] n. water bubble

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[reɁ] v. shave; scrape

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[roɁko] n. a bamboo strip that tightens the beams of a house

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rupĩ] n. earring

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨhĩ] n. a variety of tree

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ríi] n. drool

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saiklo] v. bicycle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[santú paju] n. a variety of resin used as glue obtained from a jungle berry

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãcí] n. a variety of fruit

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dwrañ sañxañ

[se] v. pull

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨdĩ] n. barking deer; muntjac

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨtɨ bjako] n. yellow berried nightshade (Solanum xanthocarpum)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[talo pɨɲu] n. spoon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tano-gorgo] n. snail

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. tano-gogo

[tarpĩ] n. maggots

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tero jorsã] n. green chili

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tiɁ] v. rub; scratch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[utũ bulũ] adj. chubby; healthy

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. tatuñ buluñ

[ɨci-padɨɁ] n. doodlebug

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jasi parĩ] n. stork (Ciconia nigra)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲipá] n. general term for people living in the plains of the south

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ágè] v. drain out (water from a field)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[árè] v. wash (esp. interior of a pot)

Speaker: Tage Kanno