Apatani English

[ací] n. elder brother’s wife (term of address)

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[adĩ] n. head (anatomical)

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[aʎee] v. shiver; tremble; shudder

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[aha ʎiiʎiɁ] adj. horrifying

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[aháa baɁ] v. hate; loathe; abhor

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[alĩ] adj. wild; untamed; fierce; savage

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Dialect: ant. amiñ

[alì arã] n. bottom; base; lower part

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[amu] n. yield; production; quantity (crop)

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[arĩ] adj. brittle; fragile; breakable

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[attè] adj. thick (of a liquid)

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[birã] n. stump (esp. of bamboo)

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[bɨlĩ kormo] n. a variety of fruit

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[bjaaɲó] adj. narrow (esp. of path)

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[cahiɁ] n. miser

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[cẽxo] n. scab (of a wound); crust

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

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[danɨ] n. heavy wooden hammer

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[dapo pogjã] n. an altar erected during a community penalty or to announce such a penalty

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[dooʎaɁ] n. lightening

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[doorò] adj. big (of an animal or vehicle)

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Dialect: ant. dorzó

[dorɨ] n. winter

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[dur] v. dig and push (for example with the snout of a pig)

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Dialect: var. dór

[duu] n. paddy for husking

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Dialect: syn. dwlo

[dɨlɨ kɨce] n. bamboo glass for measuring rice

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[dùuko] n. place of residence; sitting place

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[eɁlaɁ] adj. good in shooting

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[ẽku] n. paddy of previous harvest

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[ʎanɨ] n. one who blesses; God

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[gõkoɁ] v. open mouth

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: ant. goñpiñ; goñpyañ

[haaru] n. mourning; grief

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[haatɨ] n. west

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Dialect: syn. dazi áago

[hẽtɨ] adj. proud; haughty; boastful

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[hilĩ] n. clotted blood

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huã] n. back (anatomy)

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. hoañ

[huu] v. light up; brighten

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ipaɁ tamiɁ] n. green bottle fly (Lucilla sp.)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉoɁko] v. open by cutting

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[kaɉi tĩ] v. sneeze

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[koogá] v. spread one’s legs

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Dialect: syn. pagá ant. kooju’

[kulu] n. banana tree

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Dialect: syn. kulu sanw

[kurmu] n. grasshopper

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Dialect: var. kormu

[kɨle pẽbu] n. a variety of flowering plant that grows on the banks of the river

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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Dialect: syn. kwle pemu

[laɁgeɁ] n. anticubital space

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[lomè] n. an element of loin loom

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[lopo] n. half day

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Dialect: ant. lobyañ

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

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[lupjuɁ] v. spread false and damaging statements about someone; defame; slander;

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Dialect: syn. lupyu’-lusu’

[lɨpi] v. wash or clean the feet

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[miɉiɁ lãcu] n. Adam’s apple

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[milò] n. husband

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[misi] n. title used for dead females

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Dialect: ant. mikiñ

[muku kuli] n. seed of tobacco plant

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[murpa sai] n. fog in the horizons that is usually associated with the advent of Myoko festival in March

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[mɨdĩpa] adv. intentionally

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Dialect: syn. mwdiñ-kwliñ

[mɨkoɁ] v. open

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[mɨneɁ] v. touch; beat

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[mɨró] v. enlarge; widen

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[mjole] n. an element of ritual altar

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[mò aɲi] pron. they (two); third person dual pronoun

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[nasɨ] n. dance or. Hindi

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Dialect: var. nasu

[nɨɁ] v. prick; stab

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[o pɨɲu] n. bamboo spoon used while cooking millet for preparation of liquor

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[paapi] n. a variety of flowering plant (Hedychium ellipticum)

Example: Photo by Tapi Takha

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[pake] v. cross; intersect; crisscross

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[pape] n. gap; intervening gap

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[papù paxu] n. egg shell

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[para] v. crawl in

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Dialect: ant. parliñ

[parmɨɁ] v. grind in powder

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[pɨsa saaxu] n. pine cone

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[pjar] v. fold; braid

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[pjoɁlo] adj. prominent; illustrious; distinguished; notable

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[ŋeɁko] v. open

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Dialect: ant. qe’piñ

[raɁpo] v. tie on something; strap

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Dialect: syn. rw’po

[rica] v. throw something upwards

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Dialect: ant. rilo

[rilo] v. throw something downwards

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Dialect: ant. rica

[roŋohe] adv. five times

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[sarpuɁ] n. balloon; bladder

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[soɁko] n. jaw

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[subu ipaɁ] n. mithun dung

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[sɨcã] n. earth

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[sɨcú] n. stag

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Dialect: syn. swcúr

[sɨgo] n. bridge

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[sɨso] n. wild cat

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[tabu ŋɨi] n. eel (Anguilliformes)

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[tacĩ] v. understand; comprehend

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[tagjá] n. wood wasp

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[tali jordu] n. a variety of chili

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[tasĩ siiɲiɁ] n. small-sized larvae of dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. sizi’

[tuʎa] v. ambush; lie in wait for; lay trap for

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[tuuli] n. post; pillar

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[uurò] adj. big (of hole) ant. uuzó

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[xirki] n. window

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[xɨɨnɨ̃] adj. cooked

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[xɨxu-xɨce] v. discriminate; differentiate

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[japĩ] n. nose

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[japĩ ubúu] n. nostril

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[jo jaxo] n. skewer (for meat)

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[juu] v. extend (as hand)

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[ɲatã] n. snout or muzzle (of animal); edge or tip

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

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