Apatani English

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎiɁ asiɁ] n. cage for pig

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[aʎĩ daʎi] n. afternoon

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[ahi ácì] n. toothache

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[akì-paroɁ] n. domestic animals

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[ali lembo] n. paved road

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[alì lɨpĩ] n. instep

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amã] n. roof

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[apel] n. apple

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[apũ-aka] n. confusing state; doubtful

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[arĩ] adj. brittle; fragile; breakable

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[arí] v. string together (beads)

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[aja] adj. good; beautiful; virtuous; righteous; suitable; appropriate

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[biilo] adj. long ago; bygone; erstwhile

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[buutɨ] n. community; society

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[bũci] n. ninth month of the year; September-October

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[bɨjo] adj. weedy; full of weed (of a field)

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[ciba] n. small cane bag usually used for carrying tiffin

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[cicĩ] n. a variety of ritual (esp. to ward off malevolent spirit)

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Dialect: ant. twgò

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cuuku] adj. upside down

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[daɲi cago] n. east

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Dialect: syn. haaci

[deɁgo] n. crack

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[dáa] v. take step; pace; tread

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[ẽtɨ] n. paddy harvest

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[ʎeɁpo] v. join a thread by rollin on the palms

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[ʎohe] n. one type; one variety

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[goiɁ] adj. whole; entire

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[golu] v. lie

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[gorxã] n. armpit; underarm

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gè] v. mark; write

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ke, page

[haapĩ tagjã] n. fog; mist

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. haapiñ

[haaru] n. mourning; grief

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

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Dialect: syn. dwme

[heɁtaɁ] n. wooden agricultural implement (esp. used during construction of bundhs)

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[heló] v. let down; be disappointed

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[heŋiɁ-hemo] n. a short span of time; a moment

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽpaɁ] v. ignore; pay no heed to

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽxɨ] adj. scarce; meager; in short supply

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. heñxw-miliñ

[ho] n. and

Speaker: Nani Anga

[híhɁ] n. dried fermented bamboo shoot

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ipoɁ poɁli] n. yeast used for preparation of new batches of yeasts

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karbjã] adj. full (of the moon)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. harbyañ

[ke] v. write

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kẽte puʎe] n. a variety of shawl usually made by stitching togethe discarded clothes

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[lelaɁ] adj. fresh; new

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[leŋò aɉi] n. rice field near the village

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. jabyò aji

[luutɨ] n. grazing ground; pasture; meadow

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[lɨguɁ] n. incubating hen

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[maã] v. creep; grow along the ground or other surface by means of extending stems or branches (as creepers do)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[murpu] n. bonfire

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[mɨdã] v. touch (esp. to cause pain)

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mwne’

[naɁbu-gõbu] adj. pouting; swollen (esp. around the mouth)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ni] v. prune

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[nɨsĩ-nɨmã] n. flora; plants

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[ohoo] v. feed

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[paroɁ papúu] n. white chicken

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[paroɁ jo] n. chicken (meat)

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[pasǝr] n. extra; remainder

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[pataɁ ude] n. house with roof of bamboo split

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[paxoɁ sudu] n. a long bamboo container for smoking spicy food

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[paxɨ] v. kill by cutting

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[pãxa] n. fan

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[pimɨɁ] v. slice into pieces

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[posa] n. money (esp. coins); paisa

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese (Paisa)

[pukũ hóonɨ] n. a close relative of Muruñ sponsor who takes care of the food and drinks for pukuñ participants

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨcã paakuɁ] n. kitchen utensils

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pwcañ swdu

[pɨcó] v. make offering to God before food or drink in the form a morsel of rice or a drop of drink

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[pɨɉe] n. June; seventh lunar month of the year

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[pɨɉĩ] n. moth

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[pɨló] n. lever

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[pɨtaɁ] n. a variety of tree; wild pear (Pyrus pashia)

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[pjã] v. swell, as of wound

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Dialect: syn. gòobu

[ŋɨka] pron. my; first person singular genitive pronoun

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[rel garɨ] n. train

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[riibu] n. a variety of fish; eel

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[rì arò] n. the day after tomorrow morning

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[ríi] n. drool

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[sala bortaɁ] n. cobra; King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)

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Dialect: var. sala burta’

[sãbɨ] n. branch, of a tree

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Dialect: syn. sanw aha’

[sãgo] n. life

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[sãtũ] n. generation

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[sulú] n. fence

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[sɨpiɁ] n. needlework; needlecraft; embroidery

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[tagɨ] v. learn (by listening)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tamaɁ amu] n. fibres of tama’ tree used as cover of havershack or cap

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tamù] n. a deity

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[tipi] n. thumb impression

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tijoɁ] n. insect; worm

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[tolɨɁ] v. pour something in

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Dialect: ant. toliñ

[tɨpi-tɨpo] adj. neat; accurate

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[ukó simbja] n. rear balcony

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[une] n. wound

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[une gɨkor] n. scar

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[uugũ] n. entrance of a hole

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[jasã] n. firewood; wood

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[ɲaɁɲĩ] n. fermented rice

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[ɲibu hẽ] v. predict; prophesy; foretell

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[ácì] adv. very; to a high degree

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno