Apatani English

[acĩ] pron. group; crowd

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. atañ

[ací-baró] n. brothers; siblings

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. ací-búrù

[adĩ] n. head (anatomical)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[adĩ dilã] n. grey or red hair

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[adĩ dĩpúu] n. white or grey hair

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎiɁ asiɁ] n. cage for pig

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alló] n. bone

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[amu] n. hair

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[amú] n. lie; untruth; falsehood

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aníi] n. fruit bud

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[armĩ] adj. ripe

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. amiñ

[axɨ] n. comb

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɲìnɨ] n. second

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[babĩ] adj. stark; bare, as of a field

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[baɉi] n. time

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[baɲo] adj. small flat object

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. baarò var. barzó

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

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

[bɨso] adj. afraid; scared; terrified

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjací] adj. smart; quick; agile

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. cibyw

[dacã pɨcã] n. metallic pot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daɲi] n. sun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[diipaɁ] v. peel off; detach

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dùumo] v. take rest

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[eɁlaɁ] adj. good in shooting

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[eɁxaɁ] v. miss a target by shooting

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. e’da’

[empjã sudu] n. bamboo container to store grains for poultry

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[gaiɁ] v. sing

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[goɁ] v. measure with outstretched thumb and finger

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[goro] adj. big (of a mouth); loud voice

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gozó

[gjuɲã] n. ritual performed to appease a malevolent spirit

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. twgò

[hemĩ-hẽɉa] adj. intimate; open (of relationship)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽ] v. think; love

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hoɁjo-hoɁci] v. mixed up; mingle; intermingle; amalgamate

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. ho’gyo-ho’fo

[hõkiɁ] v. bend; stoop

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. huñki’

[hũkiɁ] v. bend; stoop

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. hoñki’

[háakò] n. entrance, entry, door

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[iʎĩ linɨ̃] n. rectal prolapse

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ixò hóonɨ] n. the person who sponsors the dry meat distributed to the participants of penw procession, usually a close relative of the main sponsor of Muruñ

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[iju] n. anus

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. koyu

[ɉiɉepa] adv. really; genuinely; honestly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉí] v. roll; spin; rotate; turn round and round

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kalo] v. look downwards

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karpaɁ pɨlò] n. second lunar month of the year; February

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. pagvr pwlò

[koɁ] v. pry; move or open something or to separate something from something else with force

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨdĩ] v. knock; bang; thump

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kóo] v. move the hips, as when closing a door with the hands full or bumping against someone

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[laama] adj. few; not many

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ice

[lupa] v. remind; help someone remember

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨma] n. root

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[mecú] adj. small; small sized; minor

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mẽli] v. kill as revenge

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. meli

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨciɁ] v. hurt the eye

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨdu-mɨje] n. strands of hair extending down the forehead, as often kept by young women

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨɉa] v. finish doing something

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nago] n. ritual hut in the middle of a village

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nu] adj. dark red colour

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[pa] v. cut (by striking); fight; peck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paʎa] adj. leaning; inclined; bent

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pafo’

[pagǝr] v. build or repair bundhs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pakú] adj. bent; twisted; crooked

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pari] n. tree sparrow (-Passer montanus)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pari pwta

[paroɁ paxɨ] n. entrails of chicken

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[patɨ] n. tiger (Panthera tigris tigris)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[põ] v. soak; marinate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[puha] v. sink (in water)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. puca

[pɨʎe] num. four

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: etym. pwfi + he

[pjokoɁ] v. open, of eye

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjuɁnɨ] n. seller

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[párkoɁ] v. screw open

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[ŋɨmi] pron. me

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[raru hamã] n. a variety of wild vegetable

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[roŋe kamjã] adv. always; every time

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[salĩ] v. expel out

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[santì] n. a variety of hardwood

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[sarlã] n. a variety of cane

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[saroɁ sanɨ] n. banyan tree (Ficus bengalensis)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[siĩbo] n. large-sized larvae of dragonfly

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tasiñ siñbo

[sitãpa] adv. like this; this way

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[sopĩ] n. lizard

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[sɨmi] n. lake

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[sɨni] n. sugar

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

[ta] v. listen; hear

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[takũ putu] n. a lesser variety of Muruñ festival

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[talu baɁlo] v. betray; deceive

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tapǝr] adv. terrible (to hear)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tãka] v. taste (drinking or smoking)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tãsǝr patã] n. labour gang engaged in miscellaneous works in the agricultural fields

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tiɁmjaɁ] v. stain; smudge

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ti’mya’-ti’sa

[tusǝr] v. straighten one’s leg

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xaataɁ] adj. dirty; stain on the face after crying

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨdĩ] v. add

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[xɨɨ] v. tie (esp. hair into a knot)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jata] adj. color pattern of she-mithun, described as overall black with a white spots on either side

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jugjã] n. ritual altar of the Apatanis

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. agyañ

[ɲimɨ] n. female

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲuɁ] v. wipe (as with a cloth or a hand); rub

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲuupaɁ] v. remove something by pricking

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ácì] v. hide; conceal

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno