Apatani English

[aʎiɁ] n. pig

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[anɨɁ] n. hurry; haste; urgent

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[anɨɁ] v. swallow; gulp down; ingest

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. arnw’

[apel] n. apple

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[arã] v. block; choke; plug; obstruct; close

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. atiñ

[asĩ] v. feed (esp. liquid food)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[beɁce] v. crack; split; rapture

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨleɁ] adj. slippery; oily; greasy; slimy

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tule’

[bjuxɨ̃] n. cemetery; burial ground; graveyard

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bátè] adj. thick (of mud or liquid)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cẽxo] n. scab (of a wound); crust

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ciɁ] v. hurl (as a javelin)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[daɁhiɁ-daɁmo] v. stand for a while; wait for a while

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daɲi áago] n. west

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. haatw

[daɲopa] adv. aimlessly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dĩxuɁ] n. skull

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dutĩ] n. wooden block for sitting on

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[eɁpe] n. pumpkin

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tápè; ayó twpè

[empu] n. a variety of white rice, usually late ripening

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ẽbĩ] n. husked rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎeɁko] n. doorlatch

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

[goobɨ-cibɨ] v. preserve; protect; safeguard

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gora] n. horse

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[gorɨ] n. watch; clock

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[gõcã] n. labial commissure

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gõcã une] n. angular stomatitis

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[haaru] n. mourning; grief

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[harceɁ] n. fold of the groin

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hoɉalo] conj. but; even then

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huuda] adj. bright

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[huɲi] n. pestle

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hémò] v. rest; take a breather

Speaker: Nani Anga

[icu] adj. few; some; scant; meagre

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. ice

[ikũ] n. beewax, used for joining broken threads

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ixã] n. trophy for recognition of achievement

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[kaɉi tĩ] v. sneeze

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[kami] prep. at the back; after; rear of

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kokañ

[kaxaɁ-karì] v. examine thoroughly; see in detail; finalize

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kẽte abíi] n. a variety of skirt of black and white color

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨle toʎoɁ] n. sweet flag; a variety of flowering plants that grow along river banks and marshy places (Acorus calamus)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨlè] n. tobacco leaves, esp. fresh ones

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. muku

[laɁpã] n. wooden community platform usually belonging to a clan

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁtĩ] adv. forcefully; with strength

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[leɁ] v. lop off

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lemba] n. village

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[luho] v. speak offensively

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[luxaɁ] v. speak wrongly

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. lugya’

[lɨkè] v. cross legs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨpĩ] n. upper portion of the foot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mepi] n. a variety of vegetable; plantain (Plantago erosa)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mepi hamañ

[miɁɉu] n. eye discharge

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mipja] n. an early ripening variety of rice

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨlãru] pron. all; everybody

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨxoɁ] v. peel or scrap, of a wound scab or a bark of a tree

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nami] n. portion of village, esp. the upper one

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. nako

[narikol] n. coconut

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[naru] v. odor; smell

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[neɁ] v. rub or scrape

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽ] v. push, using the body; nudge

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽpaɁ] v. send somebody away

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨɉi] n. a variety of tree; ghost tree (Sterculia urens)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨɉi] n. indigo (colour)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[o] n. liquor; alcoholic drink; rice or millet beer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pabú] n. valley; gully

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[padɨɁ hamã] n. a variety of vegetable

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. padw’

[papù hajã] n. egg yolk

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[patǝr] n. cage

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pató hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Clerodendrum colebrookianum)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[peca] n. a variety of wild apple

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pesuɁ] n. hornbill

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[pucũ] n. mound; heap; pile; stack

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨɲu] n. spoon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[roɁ] v. snatch; seize

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rõ] v. burn; scorch; set on fire

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rujó] n. a variety of cane earring

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨɁlo] v. pour a liquid down

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨhĩ] n. a variety of tree

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rì alo] n. the day after tomorrow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. rìda

[sa ciɁri] n. a variety of antique sword

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saɁlĩ] v. breathe out; exhale

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. sa’lw’

[saã] v. grow; live

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saŋ] n. cot; bed

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sari] n. a variety of tree which is allergic to those who are sensitive to it

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tamiɁ] n. fly (Diptera)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tanoɁ] n. snot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tarì] n. hail

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tãru] adj. bad in taste (of drinks)

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: ant. tañpyo

[tebul] n. table

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[tur] v. support (esp. with a pole or stick)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. tor

[tɨɁ] v. jerk; pull suddenly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. taniñ

[ɨskul] n. school

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. uskul or. English

[xaãcuɁ] n. can container with a lid (esp. to store rice)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xapaɁ] v. scrape something off

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xãxã] adv. firmly; fervently; forcefully

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. xañxañ dwrañ

[xɨ] v. count; innumerate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[joʎã lɨpa] n. midnight

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì inɨ] n. one who can communicate with the god, esp. with spirits of dead ones

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì ácì] v. dive inside water

Speaker: Tage Kanno