Apatani English

[abju-axeɁ] n. movement; motion; activity

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. abyú-ate’

[ací] n. elder brother’s wife (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ací-baró] n. brothers; siblings

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

[aʎiɁ jo] n. pork

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[aʎí-aróo] n. storm; rainstorm; windstorm

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[aʎú] v. lose something; misplace

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[arrò] n. vein, artery, nerve, tendon

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. argò

[arò kõci] n. dawn

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[asuɁ-asaɁ] n. disgrace; shame

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɲã] n. year

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[bacĩ] n. box myrtle (Myrica esculenta/Myrica nagi)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[beŋna] n. brinjal (Solanam melongena)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[biiku-biʎa] adj. boastful; egoistical; vainglorious

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[biɉe biirã] n. bamboo stump

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[buɁ] v. burst; explode

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[buɁli uune] n. a variety of ulcerative infective wound of the skin; ecthyma

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨɉǝr] n. market; bazaar

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[bɨlu-bɨlaɁ] adv. hurriedly; suddenly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨso-kaco] n. forbidden; proscribed; prohibited

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[bjuu] v. suck

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[bìi] v. move to and fro; swing; oscillate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cigu] n. source (of a stream)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[daapo] n. a gift item on the occasion of Mida, a part of Apatani marriage ceremony

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dahɨ-daaxe] v. go here and there

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dãsò] n. spear with long handle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨrã] n. principal marriage gift to bride’s parent; one who gets such marriage gift

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎǝǝ] letter name f ʎʌʌ the letter representing ʎ in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[guriɁ] v. get up; stand up

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bari’

[haataɁ] n. front; fore; foreground; anterior

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[har] v. cut (esp. meat); dismember

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[henci] n. a variety of edible berry

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heŋa-hẽxa] adj. troublesome; worrisome; bagging; distressing

Speaker: Nani Anga

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hoɁgjo-hoɁʎo] n. mixed up; mingle; intermingle; amalgamate

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ho’yo-ho’ci

[hor] v. dry; harden (as of paddy in sun)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hõ] v. burn (esp. in bulk)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[huɁhɨ-huɁxe] v. shake to and fro

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[hubjú] n. sheath; scabbard

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huuto] n. light

Speaker: Nani Anga

[imo] n. paddy

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. emo

[ɉeɁ] v. soften; become tender on cooked

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉibu garɨ] n. jeep

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[ɉoɉo roɁpo] n. a kind of a small bird

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. keembe’

[koʎoɁ] adj. bent; not round; irregular

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kofo’-koco

[kõcì] n. dragonfly

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. goñcì

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[laɁbu] n. sleeve; part of a garment that covers the arms

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[loci] n. hook; peg

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[lukã] v. speak for a long time

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[lumù] v. speak in sleep

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[lɨgǝr] adj. bent; crooked; not straight

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[lɨpĩ] n. upper portion of the foot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨrĩ] n. kneelet comprising of string of beads, esp. worn by priests

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[miɉí] n. orphan

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mijí atúu

[mokaɁ] adj. sunken (as of face)

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: etym. zi’mo (face) + paka’ (dent)

[mɨdǝr] v. rectify; do something correctly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨdó bjoco] n. swallow

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨʎã] v. correct; rectify; amend

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨgĩ] adj. beneficial; profitable, of works

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[mɨho] v. offend (by doing something)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[naru] v. odor; smell

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nitĩ-hormĩ] n. proverb

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. nitiñ

[nõ] v. call (esp. an animal)

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[pa] post. purposive case marker

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[pacu] n. chick

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[padɨɁ] n. a variety of vegetable

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Dialect: syn. padw’ hamañ

[paʎa-paca] adj. unsteady; staggering

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[pamã] n. bamboo rack in front wall of the house

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[poɁdo] n. accident

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[puʎã] n. peak; summit

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tw’jiñ

[pɨjo] n. Rufous-necked hornbill (Aceros nepalensis)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pù] v. hatch (an egg)

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[ŋɨkɨ] pron. mine; first person singular genitive pronoun incorporating a copula function

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨɁti] v. bind tightly

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[sadǝr] n. conical shaped bamboo filter

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. o sadvr

[sãgo] n. life

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[sɨ] v. claw; scratch

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[sɨbi bisǝr] n. a variety of monkey

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[sɨki] n. a variety of wild cat

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[sɨpja] n. dhole; Asiatic wild dog

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[tadǝr] n. parasitic worm

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tamì] n. weed

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[tapi] n. a variety of cane

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tasi] n. wall

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. tarsi

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taxxũ] n. countercurrent fish trap

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[tooŋo] n. wool

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[tõ] v. display

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[tusiɁ] v. join; attach; couple; connect

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Dialect: syn. me’si’

[tɨnĩ] n. variety of a plant; wild sesame (Perilla frutescens)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. taniñ

[xapo] n. bamboo rack above the fireplace

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨ] v. cost; value

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[jaɁlã] n. boneless portion of red meat

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. yo aya’

[jadĩ] n. storage basket of bamboo or cane

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[japa] n. young man

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jo patǝr] n. cane basket for storing meat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jorsã] n. green chili

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲibu hẽ] v. predict; prophesy; foretell

Speaker: Tage Kanno