Apatani English

[aalú] n. potato or. Assamese

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byayuñ

[abúr] adj. unlucky; unfortunate; jinxed; ill-fated

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. abú;

[aʎí] n. bow

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alóo xuu] n. inherited property (esp. house plot)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arã] adj. close, of relation

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arlǝ] adj. hard; firm; rigid; strong

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. alvr

[arí] n. price; cost; charge

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aja-kaco] n. quality; condition

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ba] v. vomit; puke; retch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[beɁxo] v. peel off; pare; flake

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjajũ] n. tomato; potato

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. beyuñ

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. twgò

[daɁmo] v. rest; take a breather

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. hémò

[dimpu] n. white hair

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dĩxo] adj. bald-headed; hairless

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. duñxó

[duɁca] adv. get excited; fired up

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dula] n. rope to tie dogs

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. akì dula

[díi] v. plant; transplant; implant

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[eɁpe] n. pumpkin

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tápè; ayó twpè

[emo] n. paddy; unhusked rice

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. imo

[empɨ] n. paddy husk

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. pwnañ

[ʎeɁpu] n. horizontal piece of bamboo holding the framework of a door

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gaɁpo] v. hold something at its base

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. ga’ce

[guli] n. bullet

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[gjáa] v. spread (esp. seeds or sand by throwing)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gòo] v. swell (as a wound); bloat; bulge

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pyañ

[heɁ] v. knit

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heɁi] n. a portion of meat

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heeʎiɁ] adj. cool, in a pleasant way

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. habuñ

[heŋaɁ] v. be worried about something

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiile] v. smile smugly; simper; smile coquettishly; grin

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ĩdũ] v. go around; wander; roam

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉiʎá] n. coarse silk

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kahó-tamo] adv. in an offending manner

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kapaɁ] v. ignore; disregard; pay no heed to

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kapjóɉaɁpa] adv. firstly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kenda] n. black necked crane (Grus nigricollis)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. keená

[koʎã] adj. round

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kolĩ] v. throw out (from the mouth)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kutĩ] n. traditional relationship

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kɨɉǝ] int. interjection of calling “lets go”

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨle] n. river

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[laɁdu] n. a forearm span; a unit of measurement equivalent to the length of a forearm

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁku] adj. sinistral; left (side)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. la’ci

[laɁtĩ] adv. forcefully; with strength

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨɨrɨ] n. edge; brim

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. cirw

[mepĩ] n. a variety of ritual in which the shaman smears rice powder mixture on the walls

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨʎã] v. correct; rectify; amend

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨgĩ] adj. beneficial; profitable, of works

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨho] v. make a sign

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨpur] v. break something

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨti] v. do something again; repeat; repair

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨjù pɨleɁ] n. a priestly ritual object made of a bundle of feathers of peacock, hornbills and cock

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nẽtó] n. a house on the main street

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. niñtó ant. neñbu, niñbu

[oho búu] v. give birth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ohoo] v. feed

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁhe] n. measure worth of a hen or paddy in a paro’ yagw; three persons which was the number of laborers hired with a hen or paro’ yagw full of paddy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pãxa] n. fan

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[poɁpǝr] n. bamboo split used to make sounds to scare birds away, esp. from agricultural fields

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[põsaɁ] adj. distinct; different

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[põtã] n. a section of village council

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

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

[pǝrǝ] n. traditional spinning wheel used to wind yarn into balls

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tano pvrv

[pjoɁlo] adj. prominent; illustrious; distinguished; notable

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[párkó] v. drill a hole

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pìtaɁ] v. slap; spank; hit; strike

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rel garɨ] n. train

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[rɨɁtú] n. a part of marriage ceremony in which paddy a newly married couple harvest paddy from the bride’s family field

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sǝǝ] letter name s the letter representing s in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saiklo] v. bicycle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[saleɁ] adj. raw, as of wood; standing wood

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[selɨ] v. pull something in

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sorɉĩ] v. stretch straight; straighten out

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨrã] n. post; pole; pillar

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨɨ lutɨ] n. grazing ground

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɁɲó] adj. small (of flat objects); thin; narrow

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tabu ŋɨi] n. eel (Anguilliformes)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tabè] n. a variety of tree of palm family, the trunk of which is edible

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tano pǝrǝ] n. traditional spinning wheel used to wind yarn into balls

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tapjaɁ] v. untie

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tarpi] n. variety of cane

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tasɨɁ] n. wart

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɲiɁ] n. corn

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tãdɨɁ] v. get poisoned by drinking

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taú] n. descriptive term for mithun bull with color pattern of dark brown color with while in the lower parts of the limbs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[teɁhi] v. fall down

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[tooro] n. Rhino beetle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tuleɁ] adj. slippery

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bwle’

[ɨci-padɨɁ] n. doodlebug

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xú] v. aim

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[jorxũ] n. Sichuan pepper

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. yorxañ

[ɲaaɲiɁ aláa] n. honey

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲatu] n. resting place

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲẽ] v. chew; masticate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲima] cop. there isn’t; copula negator

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. do

[ácì] n. pain; suffering

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì] n. spirit; god; devil

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì taɲiɁ] n. cobra lily (Arisaema sp.)

Speaker: Tage Kanno