Apatani English

[aarda] n. tomorrow

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ahe] v. bet; wager; gamble

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[aɉo] adj. gentle; tender

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[alóo xuu] n. inherited property (esp. house plot)

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[apúu] n. arrow

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[axuɁ] v. regurgitate

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[ajú] n. traditional ballad usually sang by the males as competition or simple narration

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bagã riɲo] n. a variety of flower; primrose flower (Primula spp.)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. neha appú

[beɁri] n. decorative border; edge

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[beẽ] v. shine, of sun; heat, of fire

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bĩ] v. uproot (as of weed)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨlũ-bɨle] adj. sickly, unappetizing var. buluñ-bwle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. buluñ-bwle

[cãdɨ metɨ] n. an agricultural ritual of the Apatanis

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cɨgɨ-caga] adj. lean and thin

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. rwgw-raga

[daɁ] v. stand; be there

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dapo] n. penalty; prohibition; sanction

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[deɁ] v. plait or weave

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[dotɨ] n. sky

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. mwdóo; yapuñ

[dɨho-luho] adj. offending

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨnɨ paʎo] n. an element of a ritual altar

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨxuɁ] n. left over food

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎíi] v. slither (as snakes do)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎòohá] v. jump in

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gaɁtĩ] v. block by holding

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gordu] n. worth; merit; caliber

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gɨ] v. wear clothing; pregnant; bear (fruit or leaves, of a tree)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[heɁdú] n. pork intestine along with attached fat; such meat of sacrificed animals traditionally offered to the eldest living sister by the younger ones.

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pidú

[hẽsǝr] adj. not having any burden or impediment

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hurbu] n. pipe, usually of bamboo or wood, to conduct water from one field to the other

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. hubur

[hɨmi] pron. that; third person accusative pronoun

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɨ] pron. that

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉarkũ] num. one thousand (term of enumeration)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉeɁta] adj. flattened

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kako talo] n. mirror

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Dialect: syn. kvrv talo; kako yalo; kvlo yalo, kwrv talo

[kapaɁ] v. ignore; disregard; pay no heed to

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[karĩ] v. envy; be jealous

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[kẽte puʎe] n. a variety of shawl usually made by stitching togethe discarded clothes

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[koʎũ kolo] n. primordial time

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Dialect: syn. kofuñ

[kone kõtɨ] adv. only one; lonely

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. akó koñtw

[kormu] n. grasshopper var. kurmu

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kuupaɁ] v. throw away

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[kɨʎĩ kɨloɁ] adj. shining; sparkling; glittering

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[kɨle] n. river

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[kɨmǝr] n. a person who castrates pigs

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kenná

[kɨri duɁ] v. broker; market

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kàr] v. roll (esp. a mat)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laakoɁ] v. open

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. laapiñ

[lɨbe-laɁbe] adj. lazy; lethargic

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[malo] n. roof of a house

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[marbolu] n. marble

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[miɁ] v. get extinguished (of fire or light)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miɁbeɁ] v. blink; wink

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[muɁgo] n. outlet in a paddy field

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[mɨʎu] v. waste; spend

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨlo kopo] n. hawk

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[neha] n. man; human beings

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nitĩ-hormĩ] n. proverb

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. nitiñ

[nu] adj. dark red colour

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paɁpo] n. a bamboo pole suspended horizontally on the side wall of the house for keeping clothes

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pakiɁ] adj. bent; curved

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[patɨ ahi] n. tiger tooth

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[piiʎa úì] n. God of Luck

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[pike] n. a spicy traditional dish

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[pili] n. playground; open field

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[pixu] n. spinning node

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pɨjo] n. Rufous-necked hornbill (Aceros nepalensis)

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[párɨɨ] v. twist; turn around

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Dialect: syn. párww-paxe

[ŋeɁpĩ] v. close

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Dialect: ant. qe’ko

[ŋunu] pron. we; first person plural pronoun

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[ronɨ] n. madman; lunatic; maniac

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. runw

[roŋe] adv. once; one time

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[rì alo] n. the day after tomorrow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. rìda

[sampú] n. a variety of white beads of chank shell

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[sapì] adj. flattened

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[sarsɨɁ] adj. bland; insipid; weak (of liquor)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãbɨ] n. branch, of a tree

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. sanw aha’

[suɁbi] v. ladle water for somebody

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[subu tuɁteɁ] n. a variety of wild strawberry

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[tagur ẽso] n. a variety of weed

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tatɨɁ] n. frog

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[teɁ] v. fall (esp. from a standing position)

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[tiɁpaɁ] v. erase; wipe off; rub out

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[tii] v. pour

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Dialect: syn. to

[tõrò] adj. small (of group)

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Dialect: ant. tozó

[tuɁteɁ] n. forehead of a cattle

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[tɨgeɁ] adj. sticky

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Dialect: syn. age’

[tɨgò] n. a variety of ritual (esp. to propitiate benevolent deities)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. ciciñ

[tɨlo] v. drop something from a height

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[uuxaɁ] adj. shallow

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Dialect: syn. aaxa’ ant. ùurañ

[xa] v. peel; pare; skin; take the skin off

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[xapaɁ] v. scrape something off

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[xeɁ] v. cry; sob

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[xɨnɨ̃] adj. costly; valued

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[jaɁduɁ-jaɁɲuɁ] adj. tattered; ruined; decayed

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[japĩ tɨpe] n. tattoo on the nose

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲaŋo] n. five years

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[ábì] v. swing; sway; oscillate; move back and forth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ácì] v. have pain; suffer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì] n. spirit; god; devil

Speaker: Tage Kanno