Apatani English

[adĩ] v. add; include; incorporate; admix

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ai-are] adj. annoyed; vexed; exasperating; problematic

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amí-abã] n. elders

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[anɨɁ] n. hurry; haste; urgent

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apĩ gaɁhĩ] n. ball of cooked rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apóo] v. put cloths on cloth holder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aroɁ paco] int. expression of happiness; thank you

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arí-apɨ] n. neighbourhood; locality

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[asorit] adj. surprising; amazing; startling

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[axɨ harnɨ̃] n. diarrhea

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[barɲo] adj. small flat object

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

[baɲo] adj. small flat object

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

[belũku] pron. friends; audience (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[birã] n. stump (esp. of bamboo)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[buuro] adj. thick or big cylindrical object

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. buuzó

[cogĩ] v. squat; crouch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[culu] n. a variety of children’s game

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cuu] v. move with head forward

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[còoʎa] v. limp

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dali] n. dried pulse usually prepared as gravy and taken with rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[deɁ] v. crack; split; rapture

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dema] adj. naughty; disobedient

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. deñkí

[diigò] n. matter; issue; work

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨɲo-mɨɲo] v. practice; rehearse

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ẽtɨ pataɁ] n. wooden try on which to beat while harvesting paddy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎo] v. jump

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gozó

[gõpĩ] v. close mouth

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. goñko’ syn. goñpyañ

[hẽdi] n. thoughtful man; a gentleman; a good person

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huɁ] v. shake; jiggle; agitate

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hubjú] n. sheath; scabbard

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ɉibu garɨ] n. jeep

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[ɉilã] n. a kind of traditional shawl (esp.used by the priests)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉĩ] v. tie

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kagjaɁ] v. see wrongly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ku] v. ask for; beg; seek; request; solicit

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[káɉù] int. yes; okay

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁŋǝr] n. wrist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁxɨ̃] n. dirt on the hands

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laapjó] v. steal (by taking with hands)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lohɁ] n. rope tied to the leg of a poultry as a mark of identification

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[luɉu-lumjo] adj. manner of speaking

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨxɨ̃] n. dirt on the feet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[maɉi] n. Tibetan bell without clapper used as a barter item

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[male baɁnɨ] n. porter; carrier

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[migũ] n. a variety of narrated oral literature

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[milĩ] adj. serious (of health status) adv. with great difficulty; by hook or by crook

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mitai] n. sweet

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[mɨʎã] v. correct; rectify; amend

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨlãɉa] pron. all; everybody

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨlũ] v. frighten; scare

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨpjaɁ] v. undo something; untie

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨɨ] v. heal

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨxɨ] v. kill

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨjã] n. crest on the head of cock

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjɨ] n. wife

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nãkoɁ] v. push open

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽkeɁ] n. thirteenth lunar month of the year; December-January

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨmĩ] n. placenta

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[o xuiɁ hamã] n. a variety of vegetable; creeping woodsorrel (Oxalis corniculata)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[oho búu] v. give birth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paʎa] adj. leaning; inclined; bent

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pafo’

[pahe] v. make a dent by cutting

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pai-paca] n. a large cane basket

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁ pɨri] n. chicken coop

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[peca] n. a variety of wild apple

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pẽ] v. build; construct

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. piñ

[pixu] n. spinning node

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[poɁ] v. hop; bounce; leap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[poi] n. residual fermented millet after preparation of beer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨtaɁ ahì] n. wild pear

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋarka] v. smile

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[ŋɨɲì] pron. we two; first person dual pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rapɨɁ] n. a space underneath

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ratĩ] v. answer appropriately; silence a query

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ri] v. throw

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ku, go

[sabɨ] n. officer; a dignified person

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sarlã] n. a variety of cane

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãxã meʎã] n. a variety of fencing plant; privet (Ligustrum ovalifolium)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[soj tarɨ] n. sweater

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[sõ] v. move sideways

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨbi laɁhĩ] n. a variety of creeper used for decoration

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨso] n. wild cat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tako-laro] n. variety of a hard stone

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tar] v. bend; break

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tariɁ burtaɁ] n. a variety of snake

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[toɲó] adj. small (of group)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. toñrò

[tɨgeɁ] adj. sticky

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. age’

[tɨko] n. money

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[tɨmĩ] n. Common Indian madder (Rubia cordifolia)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. tamiñ

[xaɁce] v. split; break apart

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xe] v. read; count

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xoɁkó-xoɁpè] adj. disorganized; mess; tangled

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨxu-xɨce] v. discriminate; differentiate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jaaxuɁ] n. residue of something after rotting or decomposition

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[japũ] n. sky

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲoho] v. feed a baby after chewing the food

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ĩsi] dem. that (demonstrative)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[óò] v. till (with spade); dig; plow

Speaker: Tage Kanno