Apatani English

[aʎaɁ] v. lick; lap

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[agoo] adj. external; exterior

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Dialect: ant. ura

[agǝr] n. bundh; raised earthen boundary between paddy fields where millet is planted

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[akã ɲacú] n. lower lip

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[ama] n. mother (term of address)

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Dialect: syn. ane

[amiɁ-agũ] n. design; motif; pattern (esp.in embroidery)

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[aníi] n. fruit bud

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[appú] n. flower

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[apɨ-asó] n. area; dimension

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[apó xẽ] v. toil; work hard; engage in physical labor

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[arxeɁ] n. kidney

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[arò] n. morning; daybreak

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

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[bai-bala] adj. haughty; contemptous; disparaging

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[bejũ] n. tomato; potato

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Dialect: var. byayuñ

[biti] n. craft; activity involving skills in cane and bamboo craft

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[buuro] adj. thick or big cylindrical object

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Dialect: ant. buuzó

[bɨʎeɁ] adj. soft; spongy; pliable

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Dialect: syn. bwya’ ant. alvr

[búu] v. give birth to var. bww

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Dialect: var. bww

[daaɲe] n. two steps

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[dãlò] v. beat something down; cause to fall by beating

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Dialect: syn. dañte’

[diɉeɁ] n. portable bamboo vessel (esp. for carrying liquor)

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Dialect: syn. didu

[dimu] n. hair (of head)

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[dù] v. dig; excavate

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[ʎapu puʎe] n. an ordinary customary white shawl

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[haɁló] n. branch (of tree)

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[hadɨ] v. be angry

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[heɁ] v. dig (esp. with a tool)

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[hẽbjã] adv. ample; sufficient; adequate

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[hẽɉu-mɨɉu] n. behaviour; conduct; deportment

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[hokoda] n. in that case; that being so; then

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[horʎiɁ] v. look obliquely

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[igɨ] n. evil spirits

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[ĩgo-mɨgo] n. task; job; chore; assignment

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[ɉihĩ] n. rag; scrap of cloth; dirty linen

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[ɉopjã] v. close something by placing something in the opening ant. joko’

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[kanɨ] n. one who sees

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[kapeɁ] v. see through

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

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Dialect: syn. pagvr pwlò

[karu] adj. ugly; unappealing; unsightly

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Dialect: ant. kapyo

[keemeɁ] adj. taste, as of spoilt fat; rancid

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Dialect: syn. keembe’

[kenna] n. a person who castrates pigs

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Dialect: syn. kwmvr

[koha] num. nine

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[kotǝr] n. bamboo sticks used as counters

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[koɲã] n. the year before last; two years ago

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

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Dialect: syn. kwle peñbu

[laɁpù] n. closed fisted hand

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[laŋe] num. hundred

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[leɁ] v. lop off

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[lulaɁ] adj. good speaker

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[lɨciɁ-poɁdo] n. accident; mishap

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[lɨpĩ] n. upper portion of the foot

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[lɨɨpi] n. shoulder blade

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[lɨji] n. footprint, esp. of animals

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[miɁbjoɁ amu] n. eyelash

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Dialect: syn. mi’be’ amu

[muɁ] v. brew (beer)

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[mɨɉa] v. finish doing something

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[mɨju] n. ash

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[narĩ-kari alo] n. Wednesday

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[nasɨ] n. dance or. Hindi

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Dialect: var. nasu

[neha tami] n. a variety of plant

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[nɨɉi] n. indigo (colour)

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[nɨmã] n. eaves and twigs; underbrush

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[nɨre puʎe] n. gunny bag

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

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[pageɁ] v. light a fire; set fire; ignite

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[par] v. crawl under something; creep; wriggle

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[parɨɁ] n. Khaleej pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos)

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[paxoɁ sudu] n. a long bamboo container for smoking spicy food

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[pepuɁ tabú] n. bedbug (Cimex lectularius)

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[pilá] n. rice porridge

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[pɨdi] n. a variety of bird

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[pɨdi mɨlũ] v. scare away birds from the paddy fields

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[pɨɉe] n. June; seventh lunar month of the year

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[pjarkiɁ] v. fold

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[párpĩ] v. screw close

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[ŋeɁko] v. open

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Dialect: ant. qe’piñ

[ri] v. throw

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Dialect: syn. ku, go

[sãxó] n. smoke-dried meat

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[sudu] n. bamboo container

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[sɨbi bisǝr] n. a variety of monkey

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[sɨha] n. cane rope

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Dialect: var. saha

[tabjò] v. be attracted on listening

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[taɉǝr] n. a bamboo fish trap

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Dialect: syn. taxuñ

[tapúu] adj. a color pattern of a mithun, of overall white color

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Dialect: syn. yapúu

[tasɨɁ] n. wart

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[taɲiɁ marpu] n. corn silk

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[tãxuɁ] n. leftover drinks

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[tiilo] v. to pour some liquid down

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[tijoɁ] n. insect; worm

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[tuleɁ] adj. slippery

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Dialect: syn. bwle’

[tɨgeɁ] v. stick; adhere; be glued

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Dialect: syn. age’

[tɨɨló] v. cut down (a tree)

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[uro] adv. forcefully; strongly

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[ɨɨ] letter name w ɯɯ the letter representing ɯ in the Apatani alphabet

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[xaŋ] n. bed; cot

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Dialect: syn. saq

[xɨce] v. divide (by counting)

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Dialect: etym. xw (count) + tace (divide)

[ácì-ahè] n. ailment; suffering

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[ájò jooʎã] n. late night

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[úì pami] n. goose pimples

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