Apatani English

[aháa ahɨɁ] v. forget; fail to remember

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[appú] n. flower

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[apáa] adj. young; immature

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[asiɁ] n. nest; lair; den

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[baró] n. brother

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[biɉe lẽda] n. path leading to or inside the bamboo garden

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[buʎú] n. tadpole

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[bum] n. bomb

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Dialect: or. English

[bɨraɁ] adj. mellow (of taste)

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[bjoɁdá] adj. bright; brilliant

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[danɨ] n. heavy wooden hammer

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[dãtǝr] v. break something by beating

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[dɨhi-dɨmí] adj. choosy about food

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[dɨpjoɁ] v. eat something to add taste to a meal

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[dɨpjò] adj. tasty, to eat

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Dialect: ant. dwrúu

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

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[ʎíi] v. slither (as snakes do)

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[gõdu apĩ] n. feast after settlement of a dispute

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

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[gɨɨ] v. move by manouvering

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[haaci] n. east

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Dialect: syn. dazi cago

[hargó] v. overtake (esp. by running or driving)

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[hẽɉũ] n. comfort; ease; luxury; opulence

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

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[huli] n. boil; pimple

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[hɨɲã] v. be shy

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[iʎĩ linɨ̃] n. rectal prolapse

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[ĩdĩ-ĩkó] n. direction; way forward; way ahead

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[kaʎu-kaca] v. fail to recognize

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[kakur] v. look back

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[karpo-popi alo] n. Saturday

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[kompjutar] n. computer

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Dialect: or. English

[kormo] n. seed

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[kumur] n. grasshopper

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Dialect: var. kurmu

[kɨmì] n. poison (esp. of snake); snake venom

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Dialect: var. kwmè

[kɨri harnɨ] n. businessman; broker; agent; middleman

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Dialect: syn. kwri du’nw

[lake] v. to cross legs

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[li] v. sow; seed; broadcast

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[lukó-lupè] v. interrupt; create confusion

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[lusi-luhaɁ] adj. irritating, exasperating or irksome (to talk to)

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[luxɨ̃-lumɨ̃] v. speak in a confused way; speak nervously

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[lɨ] v. plant

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[lɨdì] n. base; bottom; way; footprint

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[lɨɨ] v. lie down

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[martul] n. hammer

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[mɨbjũ] v. help; contribute

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[mɨra] n. effigy in an agricultural field to scare away birds

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[mɨtù] v. do something for the first time

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[mjamja] n. ringworm

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[nẽ] v. push, using the body; nudge

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[orĩ-pagĩ] adj. mixed color; stripes

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[pacuhe] n. measure worth of a chicken or paddy in a pacu yagw

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[paʎoɁ] adj. bent; not straight; inclined

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Dialect: syn. pafa

[patúu-papo] v. hack something into several pieces

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[poɁlã] n. grass

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[põcuɁ] adj. narrow

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

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Dialect: syn. tw’jiñ

[pɨdi pɨʎiɁ] n. watch hut in the paddy fields

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Dialect: syn. pwdi pwzi’

[pɨʎi] num. four

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[pé] v. distribute; dole out; apportion; allocate

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[ŋaare] adj. lose taste or inability to eat more

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Dialect: syn. qaatw

[ŋẽciɁ] adj. tasty; delicious

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[rǝǝ] letter name r the letter representing r in the Apatani alphabet

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[ronɨ] n. madman; lunatic; maniac

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Dialect: syn. runw

[rò] v. spy; observe furtively; keep an eye on

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[saɁka-saɁka] v. hesitate; be uncertain; be of two minds

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[salɨ] v. plantation

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Dialect: syn. sañsuñ; sadi

[samĩ rako] n. tortoise

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Dialect: syn. rako; rwko

[soku-soka] v. tease; make fun of; poke fun at; trifle with

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[some] n. bamboo shavings used as an element of altar as well as for decoration

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Dialect: syn. jompu

[sopo] adj. slim; slender; svelte; lissome

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[sorɉĩ] adj. straight

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[sosǝr] adj. shrill (of voice); high pitched; thin voice

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Dialect: ant. bañbañ

[sukũ pɨtĩ] n. open space by a well

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

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[sɨmǝr] n. silt; sand

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[sɨrã] n. post; pole; pillar

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[tadǝr] n. a bamboo species (Pleioblastus simonii)

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[takĩ ɲaɁco] n. cowrie shell

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Dialect: syn. takiñ

[talo pɨɲu] n. spoon

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[tapeɁ] n. leech

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Dialect: var. twpe’

[tarĩ] n. woven cane ring used as kneelet

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[tartu] v. break

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[tarɨ] n. shirt; top

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[taxóo] n. a variety of fern

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[topaɁ] v. pour something away

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[tuʎa] v. ambush; lie in wait for; lay trap for

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

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[urú] n. family

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[xuu] adj. old

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[xɨbo aɉĩ] n. ceremonial friend

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[xɨlã] n. a variety of red-brown squirrel

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[xɨɨnɨ̃] adj. cooked

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[jamu] n. fire

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[japa] n. young man

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[ɲaɁɲoɁ] adv. slow; sluggish

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Dialect: syn. za’za’

[ɲaa] v. point; aim; direct

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[ɲar] v. whittle; pare; shave; trim

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[áagjá] n. entrance; door

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Dialect: var. háagyá

[áttò] n. owner ant. mii

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