Apatani English

[abba-bãkũ] n. great-grandfather

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[abuɁsɨla] adv. indulgently

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[agũ] n. mouth; language

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[ahe] v. bet; wager; gamble

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[aɉĩ] v. befriend

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[aɉĩ-apɨ] n. company; friendship

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[aɉuɁ] adj. weak; frail; feeble; sick; ailing

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Dialect: syn. ájùu

[aku] n. uncle (esp. maternal) (Term of address) syn. nakú

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

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[amĩ-aɉã] adj. docile; candid; frank

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[amjaɁ] n. penis

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[apuɁ amè] n. dandruff

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[aŋɨ sɨco] int. interjection to express indifference; let it be

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Dialect: syn. aqw; aga swco

[aruɁ] n. outer covering of bean or corn

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[beɁhu] adj. spongy; springy; cushiony; resilient

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

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[bijã tɨɁgja] n. waist (esp. of female)

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[bĩpa] n. rope of bamboo skin

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[bjãkǝr] adj. thick

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Dialect: ant. bofó

[bjoopǝr] n. a variety of headgear

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[ceɁ] v. argue; contend; claim; wrangle

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[deɁ] v. crack; split; rapture

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[doodu] n. drop

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[duɁ] v. offer something for sale; market

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[ẽsuɁ] v. fail (esp. of rice plant; failing to fruit)

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[ẽtɨ pɨlò] n. tenth lunar month; October

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[ʎiro toko] n. uvula

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[gaɁtĩ] v. block by holding

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[haaɉuɁ] adj. light; not heavy

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Dialect: ant. aì

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

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Dialect: syn. dwme

[haɉǝr] num. thousand

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[heɁi] n. a portion of meat

Speaker: Nani Anga

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

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[henci] n. a variety of edible berry

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɉã lopa] n. a stick presented to a child with developemntal delay by her maternal grandparent

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ii] letter name I the letter representing i in the Apatani alphabet

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[ipaɁ] n. excreta

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[ixò hóonɨ] n. the person who sponsors the dry meat distributed to the participants of penw procession, usually a close relative of the main sponsor of Muruñ

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[ɉeɁ] v. soften; become tender on cooked

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[ɉu] v. winnow

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[kaɉi tĩ] v. sneeze

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[keele] n. an agricultural implement of short pointed bamboo chisel used for weeding

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[kopaɁ] v. throw away (from the mouth)

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[kubu] n. rat; mouse

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[kóo] v. move the hips, as when closing a door with the hands full or bumping against someone

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[laɁdɨ goɁhe] n. one unit of la’dw, equivalent to the distance between outstretched thumb and forefinger

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[laɁhĩ] n. finger nail

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[lobu loci] n. skeleton

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Dialect: syn. lobu

[lɨguɁ] n. incubating hen

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[lɨpĩ] n. upper portion of the foot

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[lɨri pɨsa] n. a variety of pine tree; Himalayan hemlock (Tsuga dumosa)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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Dialect: var. nwri pwsa

[mixɨ runɨ] n. a person possessed by spirit

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Dialect: syn. mixw ronw

[mombati] n. candle

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[mɨgja] v. help someone on reciprocal basis

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[mɨnì] v. prune; trim

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[mɨrɨɁ] v. assist somebody in doing something

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[mjɨ-oho] n. family; wife and children

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[nãca] v. push something up

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[néesu] n. wrestling

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[o] n. liquor; alcoholic drink; rice or millet beer

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[paɁsǝr] v. kill by hanging

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[pagǝr] v. build or repair bundhs

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[palã tɨŋá] n. plum

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Dialect: or. English

[pamɨɁ] v. cut or chop into small pieces

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[pamjo] n. injury; encumbrance

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Dialect: syn. pamyo-taxo

[par] v. make or light fire; ignite fire

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[paju lopa] n. long stick the end of which is covered with glue (payu)

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[paju sudu] n. bamboo container for glue (payu)

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[pemiɁ] v. put off (light)

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[pilã kamo] adj. dark yellow

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[pisǝr] v. kill by cutting the throat

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[potuɁ] n. photo

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[pɨleɁ] n. feather

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[pjo] v. open (as eye)

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[ripaɁ] v. throw something away

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[rɨgũ] n. cane loop tied on the horns of cows or mithuns

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Dialect: syn. rwgo’

[sarpuɁ] n. balloon; bladder

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[sãpǝr] n. a variety of fruit used as a spice

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[sãxɨɁ] adj. retarded growth

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[sukũ pɨtĩ] n. open space by a well

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[sumu] adj. giddy; dizzy; vertiginous

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Dialect: syn. jiimú

[sárce] v. tear something into two parts

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[taɁcè] v. cut into two

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tahã-siɁ] n. mongoose

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[taɉu-rijã] n. variety of a plant; Job’s tear

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[tapĩ] n. a species of bamboo

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[tapǝr] n. an element of babo

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Dialect: var. twpvr

[tapju] n. a species of bamboo

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[tarɲe] n. pus

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Dialect: var. taze

[tase] n. sago palm; tree fern (Cyathea gigantea)

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[tasĩ pɨha] n. a variety of bamboo basket used for carrying vegetables or edible aquatic insects

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[taxũ] n. a bamboo fish trap

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Dialect: syn. tajvr

[taxɨ] n. squirrel

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[tiilo] v. to pour some liquid down

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[ukó] n. back; rear

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[ɨpɨɁ nanɨ] n. broom

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[xẽtɨ pakù] n. ashy wood pigeon (Columba pulchricollis)

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[xɨɨgu] v. warm something by boiling

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[áade] v. come close; approach

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[ápì] v. dry

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