Apatani English

[aalú] n. potato or. Assamese

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byayuñ

[abju-axeɁ] n. movement; motion; activity

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. abyú-ate’

[acò-amyò] n. animals; creatures

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[adĩ ceɁnɨ] n. barber

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎã pɨʎi] num. forty

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[aháa] n. string; cord

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. agyú

[akì asiɁ] n. kennel; shelter for a dog

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amĩ-aɉã] adj. docile; candid; frank

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[anɨɁ] v. swallow; gulp down; ingest

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. arnw’

[arkiɁ] v. arrange (a rope) into a loop

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[auɁ gɨgjá] n. waist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axáa] adj. old; aged; elderly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[barbo-ʎibo] n. wife’s sister’s husband (term of reference)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨjo] n. yesterday night

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjakú] n. a child with developmental delay

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[carxɨ] v. boil properly; boil fully

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ceɁ] v. cut (as with scissor)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cortĩ] n. waterfall

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dempjo] n. mouse

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[doɲaɁ] n. sunny day; cloudless day

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨpjonɨ] n. thief; robber; bandit

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ẽtɨ pǝrǝ] n. large cane mat used for temporary storage of harvested paddy in the field

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ʎeɁko] n. doorlatch

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. arkonanw; fe’pu

[ʎiiʎiɁ] adj. horrifying

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

[gaarò] adj. large, as a field

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gartú

[goi tabú] n. common Indian monitor lizard (Varanus bengalensis)

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. gyoi tabú

[gõpɨ] n. chin

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gɨri] n. pigsty

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haaja] adj. hungry; famished; starving

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[harbaɁ] v. hug; embrace

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[hua] v. fall into something

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huã] n. back (anatomy)

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. hoañ

[háatɨ mɨlɨ] adv. hopefully; confidently; optimistically

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[híi] v. chant; intone; incant

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hú] v. pound; pummel

Speaker: Nani Anga

[itú] adj. small; short

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉaa] v. sway (as a drunken person do); stagger

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[kamiɉa] adv. last

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[kanuda] n. in five days; five days hence

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[keele] n. an agricultural implement of short pointed bamboo chisel used for weeding

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kompjutar] n. computer

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[koopja] n. lower back

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kore-kore] adv. with short quick steps

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[kõci] n. dawn

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[laɁca] n. handicap of the hand; disability of the hand

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lẽbo] n. road

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. lembo

[loci] n. hook; peg

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lupa] v. remind; help someone remember

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨkè-lɨbè] v. twist one’s feet around

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[lɨpĩ] n. upper portion of the foot

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[lɨɨ] v. lie down

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[meli] v. kill as revenge

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. meñli

[miɁɉũ] adj. lethargic or inactive (of a person)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mixɨ ronɨ] n. a person possessed by spirit

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mixw runw

[mɨniɁ] v. Injure a bit while doing something

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨrã-mɨtu] adv. significantly; notably

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mò] pron. he; she; third person singular pronoun

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nar pɨcã] n. earthen pot from the water of which a newborn is bathed for the first time

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nelĩ] v. send somebody out

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. nelw’

[paɉi] n. two wheeler vehicle

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[pake] v. cross; intersect; crisscross

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[paxuɁ] n. partridge

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[petú] v. break something into two or more pieces

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pece

[poɁ] v. hop; bounce; leap

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[poleɁ] n. shiny; glossy; polished

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[purò] adj. big (of spherical objects)

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Dialect: ant. puzó

[pɨlo kobjã] n. a variety of bangle

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[pɨnã] n. rice husk

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Dialect: syn. empw

[ŋunu] pron. we; first person plural pronoun

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[ŋɨʎã xɨko hamã] n. a variety of vegetable; centella; gotu kola (Centella asiatica)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[ŋɨka] pron. my; first person singular genitive pronoun

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[roŋe] adv. once; one time

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[ruci jarú] n. left ear

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[rumali] n. handkerchief

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[rɨlã] adj. euphemism for “heavy” when referred to the weight of a baby

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[sadǝr] n. conical shaped bamboo filter

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. o sadvr

[samĩ rako] n. tortoise

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. rako; rwko

[subu ɲaaɲi] n. lichen around bamboo nodes

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[surúu] adj. deceptive; crafty; treacherous

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[susumomo] adj. disappointed; dispirited; downcast

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨbi bidɨ] n. a variety of monkey

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨni] n. sugar

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: Or. Assamese var. swzi

[taar] n. wire; cable; power line

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[tagì] n. sickle

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[takeɁ] n. germ

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[talu baɁlo] v. betray; deceive

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[talɨɁ] v. agree

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tardu] n. a bamboo container for storing meat

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. yo tardu

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. taniñ

[tɨxe] n. louse

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Dialect: var. taxe

[uu] letter name u the letter representing u in the Apatani alphabet

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[une] n. wound

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[xapú] v. peel off

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[xelo] n. ritual occasion in Myoko festival on which the gods are bade farewell, usually on the 15th day of the festival

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xoɁ] v. pry open

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[xoɁkó-xoɁpè] adj. disorganized; mess; tangled

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[jadĩ] n. storage basket of bamboo or cane

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jo tardu] n. a bamboo container for storing meat

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tardu

[ɲalĩ] v. put one’s head out; peep out

Speaker: Tage Kanno