Apatani English

[aalú] n. potato or. Assamese

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byayuñ

[abã] n. burning pain

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[adú] v. make noise

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ahi] n. tooth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alaɁ laɁpù] n. fist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apì-ara] n. clapping

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[armjã] n. name

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. amyañ

[aríi] n. border; boundary

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[asè] v. wash; clean

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ata] n. aunt (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ba] v. vomit; puke; retch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[buʎã] n. traditional village council of the Apatanis

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bukoʎeɁbe] n. larva of water beetle syn. fe’be

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. fe’be

[bɨhĩ] n. a variety of tree

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

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

[bɨsã tabú] n. a variety of snake; Green Ratsnake (Senticolis triaspis)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. busañ tabú

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. didu

[dor] v. become a captive or a prisoner

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dur] v. dig and push (for example with the snout of a pig)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. dór

[dɨbũ] n. greedy; gluttonous

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨmɨ nanɨ] n. side dish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[elì] n. paddy seed; paddy preserved for next season’s sowing

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ʎaɁ] v. burn; singe; smolder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎiɁcu pɨɲã] n. ceremonial friend who exchange the heads of sacrificed pigs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎihe] post. till; until

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[guɁ] v. turn or turn oneself over (esp. in lying position)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haame] adj. coward; timid

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. haaro

[haaja-mjoxa] n. famine; scarcity of food

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dwme

[hẽpa] v. recall; remember

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[huɁsi-rasi] adj. hot and humid

Speaker: Nani Anga

[húu] v. whittle; scrape; shave

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. icu

[ɉibu garɨ] n. jeep

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[ɉoɉuru] n. a fruit bearing creeper (Silene sp.)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[katè] v. visit; go to see; look around

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[keɁ] v. put on cloth (esp. blankets, quilts or shawls); cover; overspread; overlay

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[keɁke] adj. saturated; strong, of taste; thick

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kooló] n. iliac crest

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kormu] n. grasshopper var. kurmu

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koɲã ɲaŋe] n. three years back

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kupjuɁ] v. rinse (esp. a container like a pot)

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kupyu’ kusvr

[kɨɉĩ] v. stretch on tiptoe

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁhe] v. beckon by waving the hand

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁso] n. middle finger; a unit of measurement equivalent to the length of the outstretched thumb and middle finger

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. la’ci’ lwpá

[lẽbo] n. road

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. lembo

[loʎã] n. ten days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lupjuɁ] v. spread false and damaging statements about someone; defame; slander;

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. lupyu’-lusu’

[luxoɁ] v. disagree; express different opinion

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[luɲoɁ] v. practice speaking

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨɁ] v. put, esp. grains into a container

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨji] n. footprint, esp. of animals

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[miɁɉu] n. eye discharge

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mii] pron. others; not own; outsider

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. áttò

[muɉa] n. socks

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[mɨho] v. offend (by doing something)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨmur] v. do something wrongly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mjogu] v. migrate; relocate; resettle

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nelii mjokó] n. world of the dead

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. nelii

[nelo] n. household; independent house

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nunu] pron. second person plural pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[oho ɲimɨ] n. daughter

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paɁlo] v. toss down

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. pa’ca

[padɨɁ] n. a variety of vegetable

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. padw’ hamañ

[paroɁ] n. chicken; fowl

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[parsĩ] n. red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pẽ] v. build; construct

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. piñ

[piɁ] v. sharpen; hone; whet

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. apì

[põtin] n. pen

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[purdo] v. pluck (fruits) for oneself

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjapĩ] n. early maturing variety of rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pá] v. stack; heap up; pile up

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rilɨɁ] v. throw in

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saati] n. pine sap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sapì] adj. flattened

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãxã] n. rubber

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[supjuɁ] n. drain water

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨlã pacã] n. nape of the neck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨlo-holo] adv. hurriedly; excitedly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨpiɁ] n. needlework; needlecraft; embroidery

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tago] n. a variety of tree

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taiɁ tapĩ] n. corn

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[takǝr] n. sputum

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. cukvr

[tala] n. lock

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[tano pǝrǝ] n. traditional spinning wheel used to wind yarn into balls

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[táa] v. paw; move the hands in a rapid pawing motion, as when digging away soil

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xaŋe ʎãge] n. water scorpion (Nepidae)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xã] v. narrate; gossip

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xeɁ] v. put on dress; cover

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xeɁŋɨ] v. sob impulsively

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xẽɉiɁ amú] n. hair on the temple

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xirki] n. window

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xomu] n. ritual element of an altar

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jaɁduɁ-jaɁɲuɁ] adj. tattered; ruined; decayed

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jaabũ] adj. dull (of a person)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jo patǝr] n. cane basket for storing meat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jo jaxo] n. skewer (for meat)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jorxũ] n. Sichuan pepper

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. yorxañ

[ɲacu] n. lip

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲã] v. move with the head leading

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno