Apatani English

[adú] v. make noise

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. amiñ

[alũ] v. surprise, shock

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amí] n. elder sister (term of reference)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apjoɁ] v. dilute; make a liquid thinner or weaker

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arũ] v. be possessed (esp. by evil spirits)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjakuɁ taleɁ] n. onion

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ciɁ] v. hurl (as a javelin)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ciʎù] n. little forktail (Enicurus scouleri)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cuca] n. an element of a ritual altar

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[dasǝr] adj. free; without burden; unencumbered

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. heñsvr

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dañlò

[dibur] n. mole cricket (Gryllotalpidae)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[diiha] n. clay soil

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[díi] v. plant; transplant; implant

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dùuko-dako] n. accommodation; address

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[enda] n. fifth lunar moon; May

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ga] v. scold; rebuke; reprimand;chide

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: la.wav?

[gartú] adj. small (as a field)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gaarò

[gorɨ] n. watch; clock

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[guli] n. bullet

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[guriɁ] v. get up; stand up

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bari’

[haspatǝr] n. hospital

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[heɁteɁ] n. narrow channel in the wet rice cultivation fields

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heme] v. promise; vow; pledge

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hua] v. fall into something

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huli] n. boil; pimple

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huxo] n. handle (esp. of agricultural implements like spade or axe)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huɲi] n. pestle

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨbaɁ] adj. next; following

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨro hamã] n. a variety of eggplant taken as vegetable

Speaker: Nani Anga

[iɁŋǝr] v. snore

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[imi] v. sleep

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉarpaɁ] v. toss away

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. jaapa’

[ɉú] v. weigh; measure

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kacĩ] v. recognize; know

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kala’

[kadú] v. look upwards

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ke] v. write

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[koɁ] v. to divine an omen by examining a chicken liver

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kompjutar] n. computer

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[koopɨɁ] v. sprain

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. koopu’

[kotǝr] n. bamboo sticks used as counters

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kǝrǝ talo] n. mirror

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. karo talo; kako yalo; kvlo yalo, kwrv talo

[kɨbjoɁ] v. flash; sparkle

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨteɁ] v. knock down by punching

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[laɁhɨ] n. archer’s wristband traditionally of human hair worn to protect the hand from injury by bow string

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁŋǝr] n. wrist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laaxeɁ] v. keep something upside down

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lãgja] adj. (dog) with a white neck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[leɁca] n. cane havershack covered with fibres from the bark of a particular tree worn during jungle expeditions or during war-related rituals

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lobu] n. skeleton

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. lobu loci

[luɉu-lumjo] adj. manner of speaking

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lukó-lupè] v. interrupt; create confusion

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨme-mɨɉa] v. complete; finish

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjole] n. an element of ritual altar

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ni] v. prune

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨɉi] n. indigo (colour)

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[pacu] n. chick

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paju] n. glue usually of plant origin

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pili] n. playground; open field

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[piro] n. swampy land; marshy area

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pobaɁ] v. hug; embrace

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pòoba’-pòola

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

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[pɨtaɁ appú] n. flower of wild pear tree

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pjali] n. seed (esp. of rice)

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[pjaɲiɁ] n. early maturing variety of paddy belonging to mìipyá group

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[pí] v. bark

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[ŋoja] pron. something else

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[ŋɨi] n. fish

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[reɁke abja] n. ladder leading to the ceiling

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. re’ke re’bya

[ripó-rílo] adj. striped; streaked; variegated

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. rimyo’-riso

[rɨgĩ] n. an element of gwrw (trap)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ríipĩ] v. close something by stitching or sewing

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sarxo] n. stalk, of millet

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãti] v. push something tightly as when packing

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[selĩ] v. pull something out

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[suɁ] v. ladle; scoop

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[subu] n. mithun; bos frontalis

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[subu sihɁ] n. pond or puddle where mithuns gather to drink water, here dry

Example: Photo by Hage Tara

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tabe] n. sugarcane plant

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twbe

[tapǝr] n. an element of babo

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twpvr

[tasi] n. wall

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. tarsi

[tatɨɁ] n. frog

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taxoɁ] v. disagree; disobey

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɲiɁ] n. corn

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[tero] n. chili

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[tɨɁɉĩ] v. stretch; lengthen; elongate; make longer

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pujiñ

[tɨp pɨpɨ] n. Himalayan cuckoo (Cuculus saturatus)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ǝǝ] int. yes; okay; interjection to express a positive answer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɨ̃] inter. yes

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[xã] v. narrate; gossip

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[xẽɉiɁ amú] n. hair on the temple

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[xée] v. fry; roast

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[jaa] v. rot; decay; decompose

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[jalã pɨro] n. a small egg container of bamboo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jamuɁ] adj. ashy (color)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲaapaɁ] v. insult; slander; discredit

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲibu] n. Apatani shaman

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ácì] v. have pain; suffer

Speaker: Tage Kanno