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[abba-bãkũ] n. great-grandfather
Speaker: Tage Kanno
[aʎiɁ jo] n. pork
[aha ʎiiʎiɁ] adj. horrifying
[ahi ácì] n. toothache
[aɉã-bɨɲǝ] adj. fragile; soft; tender
[aɉǝr] v. to be playful as a dog waging its tail
[akã ɲacú] n. lower lip
[api-aláa] n. sap of a tree
[apju] v. spead (a mat) on the floor
[artĩ bɨlĩ] n. testicle
[atobo] n. father-in-law (term of reference)
[axeɁ] n. kidney
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: var. arxe’ span>
[axáa] adj. old; aged; elderly
[bareɁ] v. snap or break, as a thread
[beɁce] v. crack; split; rapture
[bulũ-bɨle] adj. sickly, unappetizing var. bwluñ-bwle
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: var. bwluñ-bwle span>
[bɨʎĩ] n. yesterday evening
[bjakuɁ taleɁ] n. onion
[báa] v. roll; spin; rotate
[bée] v. chant; invoke
[bíi] v. cascade; flow (as water)
[car] v. boil
[cãta] n. rice flake (esp. of newly harvested paddy)
Example: Photo by Tage Kanno
[ciirɨ] n. edge; brim
Speaker: Tage Yassing,Dialect: syn. lwwrw span>
[cuuku] adj. upside down
Speaker: Tage Yassing
[cíi] v. be extinct
[daruu] n. summer
[daɲi cago] n. east
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. haaci span>
[dor] v. become a captive or a prisoner
[dɨɲo-mɨɲo] v. practice; rehearse
[elù] n. reed flute
[ema] n. dream; reverie
Speaker: Tage Yassing,Dialect: var. imáa span>
[gõdu] n. arbitration; mediation; mediator
[haaceɁ] n. difficult time; crisis; emergency
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. haace’ swre span>
[haʎã sãxã meʎã] n. hibiscus (Hibiscus rosasinensis)
[harɉeɁ] v. run over (esp. by a vehicle)
Speaker: Nani Anga
[heló] v. let down; be disappointed
[heŋaɁ] v. be worried about something
[hiɁtĩ] v. bash against something
[hɨgũ hamã] n. a variety of vegetable; Japanese parsley (Oenanthe javanica)
Example: Photo by Kanno Tage
[hɨsã] n. grass; fodder
[hɨɲã] v. be shy
[hóo] v. feed (esp. an animal)
[húu] v. whittle; scrape; shave
[iɁŋǝr] v. snore
[icã] n. dysentery; ailment with blood stained stool
[ɉã] v. become fat; put on weight
[kamra] n. room
Speaker: Tage Yassing,Dialect: or. Assamese span>
[koʎũ-kocũ] adj. imbalanced; fall down due to imbalance
[kɨce] v. break by hitting or punching
[kée] v. pole vault; jump with a pole
[leŋò aɉi] n. rice field near the village
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: ant. jabyò aji span>
[li lilã] n. cicada (Cicadidae)
[lupaɁ] v. criticize; denounce; condemn; speak ill of someone
[lɨɁ] v. shed, as leaves do from the trees
[lɨdì] n. base; bottom; way; footprint
[miɁla] n. tear
[mipá sarse] n. an early ripening variety of millet mainly grown in paddy field bundhs
[miju] n. human beings
Speaker: Tage Yassing,Dialect: syn. neha span>
[muɁ] v. brew (beer)
[muɁ] v. rut (animals)
[murto] n. metal arrowhead
Speaker: Tage Yassing,Dialect: var. morto span>
[mũdo] n. girlfriend; female lover
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. zimuñ ant. saado span>
[mɨkĩ] v. show how something is done; demonstrate
[naa] v. collect; gather; muster
[paɁkǝr] v. encircle; surround; enclose
[papo] adj. incomplete; not full
[pẽgu] v. warm
[piɁreɁ] v. sharpen; hone; whet
[pĩbè] n. snow
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: var. peñbè span>
[poorò] adj. big, of cylinderical objects
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: ant. poozó span>
[purò] adj. big (of spherical objects)
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: ant. puzó span>
[pɨge] n. barbet
[pɨɉoda] adv. later on; after sometime
[ŋarsi] v. chuckle; laugh quietly or inwardly
[ŋur] v. move something heavy using lever
[rũ] v. be mad; go insane; become crazy
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: var. roñ span>
[ríi] v. sew; stitch
[sãtǝr] n. a variety of glass bead
[sosǝr] adj. shrill (of voice); high pitched; thin voice
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: ant. bañbañ span>
[soɲó] adj. thin (of objects like a thread)
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: ant. sorò span>
[supũ] v. ceremonial smearing of sacrificial animals with rice powder
[sɨ] v. die
[sɨpja] n. dhole; Asiatic wild dog
[sɨso] n. wild cat
[taɁmú] n. betel
[tabe] n. sugarcane plant
Speaker: Tage Numpi,Dialect: var. twbe span>
[taɉu-rijã] n. variety of a plant; Job’s tear
Speaker: Tage Numpi
[taxeɁ] n. a variety of cane
[taxɨɁ] n. head louse
[ubúu] n. hole
[utũ bulũ] adj. chubby; healthy
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: var. tatuñ buluñ span>
[xapú] v. peel off
[xooló] adj. main; supreme; principal; chief; head
[xée] v. fry; roast
[jarlo] v. calm someone down
[jormɨɁ] n. dried chili pepper
[ɲaa] v. point; aim; direct
[ɲaanɨ] n. general term for maternal uncles
[árù] adj. coarse; rough; large ant. amw’