Apatani English

[abaɁ] v. put a load; help carry

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎaɁ] v. lick; lap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎeɁ ago] n. doorstep

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ageɁ] n. quiver

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[akì kíibò] n. male dog

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[akó-abiɁ] pron. everyone; everybody; every person

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amaɁ] v. feed (esp. the hired laborers)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apã keemã] n. male dragonfly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjarbó] v. jump across

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjajũ] n. tomato; potato

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. beyuñ

[bjáa] v. roast; grill

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cahiɁ] n. miser

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dañlò

[domĩ-doŋeɁ] n. fatigue due to change in weather

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[doɲaɁ] n. sunny day; cloudless day

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨɲo-mɨɲo] v. practice; rehearse

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[emo] n. paddy; unhusked rice

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. imo

[ẽtɨ tari] n. kiwi (Actinidia sp.)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[gaɁsǝr] v. strangle with hand

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gaambɨ] n. border; brim; boundary

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gipjã] v. close (a hinged door)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. giko’ syn. gitiñ

[goɁ] v. measure with outstretched thumb and finger

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gokǝr] n. circle

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gɨɉu-gɨmjo] n. dress; dressing style

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. gwju

[heɁ] v. cut with a knife with the sharp edge away from the user, as in smoothening something

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiɁtĩ] v. bash against something

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huɁ] v. shake; jiggle; agitate

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huʎu] n. bamboo javelin

Speaker: Nani Anga

[haágjá] n. entrance, door

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[híhɁ] n. dried fermented bamboo shoot

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ɉiimu] v. giddy; dizzy; vertiginous

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. sumu

[ɉirɨ] v. spin; rotate

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kabyo] v. yearn; wish to possess something or someone

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kahò] v. take note of; mark something

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kiluɁ] n. a small compartment in the granary usually for storng millet or agricultural implements

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koŋ koɲã] n. four years back

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨla kɨla] adj. eyes wide open

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨloɁ kɨloɁ] adj. glossy

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[lalĩ] n. footprint

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lãpɨɁ] n. shelter; camp (esp. in the jungles)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[leɁ] v. lop off

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lebe] v. be fed up of eating too much or too frequently of the same item

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lẽ] v. filter; sieve; sift

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[li lilã] n. cicada (Cicadidae)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[luʎe] v. slur one’s speech as when drunk

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lulù] v. disturb by speaking

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. lulù-lugo

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. lupyu’

[meɁ] v. join; link; couple

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. me’si’

[mɨbjũ] v. help; contribute

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨce] n. trough cleaner

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. afi’ mwge’

[mɨgja] v. help someone on reciprocal basis

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨlĩ] v. generate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨŋó] n. unfinished task; remaining work

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjokó] n. open space outside the village

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nasu] n. dance

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Hindi var. nasw

[no] pron. you; second person singular pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[opaɁ] v. give up; let go

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. apa’

[paroɁ pabjaɁ] n. young chicken

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. paro’ pwbya

[pajaɁ-gaajaɁ] v. attack; quarrel

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. paya’

[pee] v. chant producing a characteristic sound “ho ho…”

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨɁ] v. sweep; clean

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjaɁmĩ puʎe] n. a variety of traditional shawl

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjatɨ] n. a variety of rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋo] pron. I; first person singular pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rilo] v. throw something downwards

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. rica

[roɁ] v. snatch; seize

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[roɁpo] n. cock

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. ro’nw

[roha] v. dry over fire

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨxɨda] n. four days hence

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. rwxw alo

[saɁ] v. breath; suck; cough

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sapì] adj. flattened

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sarpu sarse] n. an early ripening variety of millet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[seɲi] n. rhododendron

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[silaɁ] v. stitch or sew (esp. with sewing machine)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: Or. Assamese

[sitã] pron. like this; this way

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[surù] n. coarse sand

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨbi bisǝr] n. a variety of monkey

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨɉʌr sɨ] v. commit suicide

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨrɨ] n. bugle of horn, usually of yak horn

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨxɨ̀ puxɨ̀] n. porcupine

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. swxẁ

[taaxè] v. lie on one’s back; lie supine

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tamjó] adj. a color pattern of a mithun, of black colour but a white patch running from the head to the tail at the back

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tapiɁ] n. a variety of bird

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tarú] n. mosquito

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tasĩ siiɲiɁ] n. small-sized larvae of dragonfly

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. sizi’

[tihiɁ] adj. sweet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tuɁteɁ] n. forehead of a cattle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨɁ] v. pound, strike

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨɨ] v. boil; cook

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨɨnɨ̃] adj. cooked

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jo tardu] n. a bamboo container for storing meat

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tardu

[ɲabe] v. frown; scowl

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲalĩ] v. put one’s head out; peep out

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲimaɁ] n. war; enemy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ácì-ahè] n. ailment; suffering

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ágè] v. drain out (water from a field)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[óòpa] v. find something by hoeing

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì bée] v. a variety of chanting during a particular ritual

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì ácì] v. dive inside water

Speaker: Tage Kanno