Apatani English

[aarã] adj. deep

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. uurañ

[abu-akeɁ] n. manure; fertilizer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alì lɨpjo] n. sole

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[asiɁ] n. nest; lair; den

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[baɉiɁ] v. cook in oil

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[baɲo] adj. small flat object

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

[bɨdã] n. precipice; cliff

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨdí] adj. trick; tactic; strategy

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[bóo] v. pull; tug; lug; drag; draw

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[colo] n. a decorative element of babó

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[deʎã rɨcã] n. bell

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. defañ rwci

[dui] n. tobacco

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨli-dɨlo] adj. grandeur (of scenery); beautiful (of landscape)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨma-haama] n. purification ritual

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨpjonɨ] n. thief; robber; bandit

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎeɁbe] n. larva of water beetle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bukofe’be

[gaambɨ] n. border; brim; boundary

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gasu] v. have verbal quarrel

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haalo] n. August-September; ninth month of lunar year

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haaru hẽ] v. mourn; grieve

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[heme] v. promise; vow; pledge

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽdǝr] v. conscious; understand; figure out

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hoã] n. back (anatomy)

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. huañ

[hár] v. run; drive (a vehicle)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[iŋɨ-ĩxeɁ] v. move around

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ĩɉó-mɨɉó] n. wage; earning

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉalo] conj. although; even if; or

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[ɉigɉiro] n. kind of a traditional shawl

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉiimu] v. giddy; dizzy; vertiginous

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. sumu

[kahó] v. get punishment for a sin; retribution

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karmú] v. look with anger or disapproval

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[katì] v. review; re-examine; re-evaluate

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[keembeɁ] adj. taste, as of spoilt fat; rancid

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Dialect: syn. keeme’

[kelaɁ] adv. good in writing; skilled in writing

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[koʎũ-kocũ] adj. imbalanced; fall down due to imbalance

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[koode koode] adv. waddling, of gait

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[koopuɁ] v. sprain

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Dialect: var. kopw’

[kootaɁ] n. buttock

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[korlã] n. thunderbolt; ritual performed to prevent thunderbolt

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[koɲã] n. the year before last; two years ago

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[ku] v. ask for; beg; seek; request; solicit

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[kɨle pẽbu] n. a variety of flowering plant that grows on the banks of the river

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kwle pemu

[kóò] n. son

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[lamuɁ-laju] adj. pinkish (color)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lãpɨɁ] n. shelter; camp (esp. in the jungles)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨceɁ] v. interfere; obstruct; impede

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨciɁ] v. hurt the eye

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨkoɁ] v. open

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨxeɁ] v. make somebody cry

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjɨ-milo] n. married couple

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nekã aʎeɁ] n. door of the toilet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽbu] n. a house away from the main street

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. niñbu ant. neñto

[nɨ do] pron. when (past tense)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨmi] pron. you (accusative); second person singular accusative pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pa] post. purposive case marker

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[patuɁ] n. sharp edged stump of bamboo or other tree

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[patuɁ alɨɁ] v. put in the jail; imprison

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[pĩbú] adj. individualistic; personal

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Dialect: ant. búutw

[pĩta ahi] n. gourd

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[põsaɁ] adj. distinct; different

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[puʎe silaɁnɨ] n. tailor

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[pɨnã] n. rice husk

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. empw

[pɨtaɁ ahì] n. wild pear

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjaɁ] v. undo; answer (to a question put as means of ayú)

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[pjo] v. open (as eye)

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[ŋɨʎã] n. variety of a fish considered sacred by the Apatanis

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[rel garɨ] n. train

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[salĩ] v. expel out

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[sãxe page] n. a variety of bead

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[seɲi] n. rhododendron

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[subu sɨbo] n. mithun bull

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨcúr] n. stag

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. swcú

[sɨmǝr] n. silt; sand

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[taɁce] n. crack; rupture; split

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tabu ŋɨi] n. eel (Anguilliformes)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tamaɁ] n. a variety of tree

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tapã daʎi] n. east

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tarɉĩ] v. straighten

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: ant. tarki’

[taɲiɁ pamɨ] n. corn powder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tisǝr] adj. sweet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨlo] v. drop something from a height

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨɨ] v. throw; toss; fling

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ubúu] n. hole

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[ǝǝ] letter name v ǝǝ the letter representing ǝ in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xǝǝ] letter name x the letter representing x in the Apatani alphabet

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[xeɁlĩ] v. take off; uncover

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. xe’lw’

[xoɁ] v. pry open

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[xɨɨgu] v. warm something by boiling

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[xáa] v. bark (of a barking deer)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jaɁlã] n. boneless portion of red meat

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Dialect: syn. yo aya’

[jaaxuɁ] n. residue of something after rotting or decomposition

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jalo biɁ] v. echo; resonate; reverberate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jamu mɨʎo] n. flame

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[jamjo] n. color pattern of she-mithun, described as overall black with a white spots on either side

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jata] adj. color pattern of she-mithun, described as overall black with a white spots on either side

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[ɲoo] letter name z ɲoo the letter representing ɲ in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲaaɲiɁ aláa] n. honey

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[ɲaŋo] n. five years

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲor] v. step on something

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. zar