Apatani English

[aalú] n. potato or. Assamese

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byayuñ

[adã] n. spear

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[adú] v. make noise

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[agjo] v. mix; add; combine

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[akì] n. dog

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[alaɁ muɉa] n. glove

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[ali lembo] n. paved road

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[ane] n. mother (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ama

[anee] v. provide packing or support to join or mend something.

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[ará] adj. empty; vacant; void

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[atúu] adj. small; tiny; little; miniature ant. káhè

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[barxoɁ] v. straddle; sit straddling a seat; bestride

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[baɲo] adj. small flat object

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. baarò var. barzó

[beɁpaɁ-beɁjaɁ] adj. reckless; impulsive; impetuous

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨʎĩ] n. yesterday evening

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cibjɨ] adj. smart; quick; agile

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byací

[cuca] n. an element of a ritual altar

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[daɁ] v. stand; be there

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daruu] n. summer

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[darɨɁ] adj. clean; pure; clear

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dãlò] v. beat something down; cause to fall by beating

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dañte’

[dɨŋó] n. left-over food

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[ẽtɨ] n. paddy harvest

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[ʎiro toko] n. uvula

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[gɨneɁ-gɨse] v. lightly touch with any part of the body; flirt

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gjaasi] n. mother’s mother’s brother’s patrilines; portion of the meat traditionally offered to such relations

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[heɁ] v. blow (as wind)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heʎu] v. forget

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. aháa ahw’

[hẽ] v. think; love

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽpa] v. recall; remember

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[hiɁ] v. paint; apply paint to; white-wash

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[huʎu] n. bamboo javelin

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɉã] n. new born

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[hɨro hamã] n. a variety of eggplant taken as vegetable

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɨbo] n. bull

Speaker: Nani Anga

[iŋɨ-ĩxeɁ] v. move around

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kageɁ] v. look at

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kasɨ-kape] v. ignore; pay attention to

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[kaxɨ̃-kamɨ̃] adv. look with confusion; unsatisfactory; disagreeable

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kebaɁ-kela] v. hug or embrace in an intimate way; hug in a playful way

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koɲã ɲaŋe] n. three years back

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[kõtɨ] part. only

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kɨra raadu] n. chestnut

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. kwri du’nw

[laako] n. a crossed stick in front of the entrance to signify the performance of a ritual in the household

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lako-lape] v. exchange; interchange; keep something in disorderly fashion

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[lẽda] n. path

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[loɲì-lohĩ] n. some days

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[lukó-lupè] v. interrupt; create confusion

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[luxè] v. speak rudely; speak brusquely

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[lɨji] n. footprint, esp. of animals

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[mah] int. no; exclamation for negative response to a question

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[martul] n. hammer

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[miɉiɁ] n. one well versed in traditional literature

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: etym. ami’ (eye) + áfò (skin)

[mɨ] v. do

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[mɨbiɁ] v. spill; splash

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mja] v. collect contributions; collect

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Dialect: syn. xa

[neha tami] n. a variety of plant

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[nẽru] adj. foul smelling

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Dialect: ant. neñpyo

[orĩ-pagĩ] adj. mixed color; stripes

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[pacoɁ] n. head of a stream

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[paduɁ] v. damage by cutting

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[paiɁ] v. get

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[papo] adj. incomplete; not full

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[paroɁ jagɨ] n. medium sized basket for measuring quantity of paddy, roughly equivalent to five kilograms

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[pasu] v. fight; quarrel

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pece] v. wrench something into two parts; pry something into two

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. petú

[perũ jaanɨ] n. fermented soybean

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[pixɨ] n. spindle used for spinning thread from cotton

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. pixu syn. tapo

[poɁdo] n. accident

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[poɁna] n. fermented rice or millet eaten as such

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[poʎã] n. plateau; a plain area at a height

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[pũtu] adj. hump; ridge; bulge; swelling

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Dialect: ant. paka’

[pǝrǝ] n. large cane mat used for temporary storage of paddy during harvesting

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨɁpja] v. scatter by sweeping

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[ŋoja] pron. something else

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[ribo] v. throw something across

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[roŋohe] adv. five times

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[ruu] v. drill; bore a hole in; make a hole in

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[rìi] v. mark; mark a line

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[saɁ] v. breath; suck; cough

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[sadi-sapa] n. plantation

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[sarxo] n. stalk, of millet

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[siiɲiɁ] n. small-sized larvae of dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. tasiñ siizi’

[sor] v. slip; skid

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[sosma] n. goggle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[subu sa] n. cane rope for mithuns

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɁkó] v. dig a hole or trench

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[talɨ́] n. unnatural death

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tapũ] n. bat

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taxeɁ] n. a variety of cane

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tãsǝr patã] n. labour gang engaged in miscellaneous works in the agricultural fields

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tuulu] n. sub-clan

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

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Dialect: syn. pujiñ

[xomjú] adj. tapering

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[jalo] n. shadow; reflection; echo

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[jalo biɁ] v. echo; resonate; reverberate

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[joʎã] n. dead of night

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[ɲalĩ] v. put one’s head out; peep out

Speaker: Tage Kanno