Apatani English

[aʎoo] n. tongue

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[aɉí] n. farm; wet agricultural field

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[aɉí mɨnɨ] n. farmer

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[aɉí sampjá] n. tray, usually of wood, used to move soil from one part of the paddy field to the other

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[akó] num. one; single

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[anɨɁ] n. hurry; haste; urgent

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[apã keemã] n. male dragonfly

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[apĩ] n. cooked rice

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[aɲĩ] n. breast; milk

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[baɁ] v. carry; transport

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[baabuɁ] adj. healthy (esp. of child); pampered

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[baajoɁ] adv. slow; sluggish

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[babĩ] adj. stark; bare, as of a field

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[beɁ] v. spring, something under tension; leap (as frogs do)

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[bebuɁ] n. gun

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Dialect: syn. mubu’; bibu’

[buɁ] v. burst; explode

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[bjaɲó] adj. small (esp. of flower)

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[bjãtũ] adj. big and thick (esp. of flower)

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[bjoɁ] v. shine (as sun); radiate; glow; glare

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[cuuki] v. stoop

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Dialect: syn. cuukw

[cuukiɁ] n. metallic poker; safety pin

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Dialect: syn. ufañ kuti

[dapo pogjã] n. an altar erected during a community penalty or to announce such a penalty

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[deŋe] n. hair (of a child)

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[domĩ] adj. cloudy; rainy

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Dialect: ant. doqe’

[dɨhi-dɨmí] adj. choosy about food

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[dɨlĩ] n. path made by a hunter; hunting track

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Dialect: var. daliñ

[endi] n. rice plant; rice seedling

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[ereɁ] n. belly; stomach

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Dialect: xañcu.wav

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

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[ʎo] v. jump

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[ʎòobó] v. jump across

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[gõcì] n. dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. koñcì

[guɁ] v. hatch; sit on or brood eggs

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[gjoɁ] v. call; hail

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[haɁló] n. branch (of tree)

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[hiiɲiɁ] v. grimace; make face (usually in pain)

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Dialect: syn. hiicí

[hilĩ] n. clotted blood

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[hua] v. fall into something

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[hárgɨ] v. run away; escape; flee

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Dialect: syn. hágw

[ɉã] v. become fat; put on weight

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[kagɨ] v. learn (by seeing)

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[kaɉiɁ] adj. good to look at; good

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

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[komla tɨŋá] n. orange

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[koojo] n. the night before the last

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[kortú] n. metal capping at the end of the handle of a ceremonial sword (ci’rì)

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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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[laɁgeɁ] n. anticubital space

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[laɁpó] n. upper arm

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[lɨ] v. plant

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[lɨguɁ] n. incubating hen

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[lɨtaɁ] n. cockspur

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[mecú] adj. small; small sized; minor

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[miju-mima] n. human beings

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[morto] n. metal arrowhead

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Dialect: var. murto

[mɨdǝr] v. rectify; do something correctly

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[mɨmjó] v. do something in advance

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[mɨniɁ] v. Injure a bit while doing something

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[mɨrã-mɨtu] adv. significantly; notably

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[mɨxu] v. demarcate; delineate; separate

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[nu] v. collect; accumulate; assemble; stockpile

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[nɨtãpà] pron. how

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[paakuɁ] n. plate

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Dialect: syn. paaka’

[pabjó] n. quarrel; dispute

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[patã áttò] n. a member of the labour gang in whose field it works on the day

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[paxɨ] v. kill by cutting

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[pẽbe] n. snow

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Dialect: var. piñbe

[pilã kamo] adj. dark yellow

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[pimpú] n. grains of cooked rice

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Dialect: syn. apiñ pimpú

[pĩta] n. rounded liquid container made from the hard hollowed and dried skin of gourd

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[poleɁ] n. shiny; glossy; polished

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[pɨɲú] n. brain

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[pìitã] adj. dry

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Dialect: ant. juja

[ŋar] v. laugh; smile

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[ŋarpa] v. laugh at; make fun of; ridicule

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[riilaɁ] n. tendril

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[rilɨɁ] v. throw in

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[rõ] v. be mad; go insane; become crazy

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Dialect: var. ruñ

[sah patɨ] n. tea leaf; tea grain

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[soɉã] n. lizard

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[sɨbi bidɨ] n. a variety of monkey

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[sɨpiɁ] n. pangolin

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[ta] v. listen; hear

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[tadǝr] n. a bamboo species (Pleioblastus simonii)

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[Tanɨ miju] n. Apatani people

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[taxe] n. tick

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Dialect: syn. twxe

[tooʎoɁ] n. a variety of flowering plant

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Dialect: syn. kwle toofo’

[tõkĩ] v. display

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[ũ] v. sip; take a sip

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[xaŋá] v. kneel down

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[xe] v. distribute; divide

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[xɨɨ] v. tie (esp. hair into a knot)

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[jaɁhi] v. collapse; cave in; crumple

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[jar] v. persuade; coax; convince; win over

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[jasi jaɉuɁ] n. water ladle

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[jo ajaɁ] n. fleshy portion of meat

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Dialect: syn. ya’lañ

[jo bade] n. ceiling rack for storing meat

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[ɲipá jaru] n. an aquatic plant; azolla (Azolla pinnata)

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[ɲor] v. step on something

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Dialect: syn. zar

[ácì] n. pain; suffering

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