Apatani English

[aapu kai] n. showy; ostentatious (person)

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[abǝr] pron. something; something that is unspecified or unknown

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. aqw swco; aga swco

[aɉĩ] n. friend; company; mate

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[alǝr] adj. hard; firm; rigid; strong

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. arlv

[alɨɁ] v. insert; put

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[apĩ] n. cooked rice

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[apó] n. body

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[aruɁ] n. outer covering of bean or corn

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[arì] v. demarcate; delimit; delineate

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[aíi] n. blood

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[beɁxo] v. peel off; pare; flake

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[belũ] n. friend; audience (term of reference)

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[burúu] n. mythical crocodile-like creature said to have inhabited the Ziro valley in the olden days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[buuì] n. rat dropping

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[bjáa] v. roast; grill

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[corkɨ] adj. smart; strong; rigid

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[dacã pɨloo] n. metallic crowbar

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dãxo-paɁɲì] n. weapon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[doha] n. world; realm

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. doha-dolo

[doha-dolo] n. world; realm

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dodiñ-dolo

[dùuhi] v. vacate a seat

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[dùuko] n. place of residence; sitting place

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[enda] n. fifth lunar moon; May

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ga] v. scold; rebuke; reprimand;chide

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: la.wav?

[gartaɁ] n. paddy field in the upper portion

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. garpw’

[go] v. throw

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. ri; ku

[haaʎĩ] n. fourth lunar month of the year; April

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haago] adj. vain; haughty; vainglorious

Speaker: Nani Anga

[haasǝr] n. the internodal part of a bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haɉǝr] num. thousand

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[helo] v. pardon; forgive

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽ] v. think; love

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hoi] v. be; happen

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[húì] v. fall

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ita] n. brick

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[ɉar] num. thousand

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉoɉǝr] n. green june beetle

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉú] v. weigh; measure

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[kagoɁ] v. overlook; disregard; ignore

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[kalaɁ-talaɁ] adj. knowledgeable; learned

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[kapanɨ] n. witness

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[kapanɨ he] adv. everything

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Dialect: syn. amánw he

[kapjó] adj. first

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[kejĩ] adj. good; serene

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[koʎũ kolo] n. primordial time

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Dialect: syn. kofuñ

[kooʎa] v. limp

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[kɨcè] n. small bamboo cup used for measuring rice or millet

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[kɨʎĩ kɨloɁ] adj. shining; sparkling; glittering

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[laɁxɨ̃] n. dirt on the hands

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[loʎã] n. ten days

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[lɨɁ] v. put, esp. grains into a container

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[lɨkè-lɨbè] v. twist one’s feet around

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[maɲã] n. traditional friend from other tribe

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miɁɉũ] adj. lethargic or inactive (of a person)

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[mɨnù-mɨna] adv. worthlessly; uselessly

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[mɨsì] v. do something secretly

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[mɨxoɁ] v. peel or scrap, of a wound scab or a bark of a tree

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[nala pakaɁ] n. drain

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. nala

[nunupa] pron. for you (plural); second person plural pronoun, purpostive case

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. lwri pwsa

[pahĩ] n. liver

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[pala] n. scale; weighing machine

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[palo-malo] n. world

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[parbo] v. crawl across

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[parda] adj. straight; honest; linear; not bent

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[patã aɉo] v. hire a labaour gang

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[petiɁ] n. belt

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[pẽ] v. mature; come of age; be full-grown

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[puju] n. news

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Dialect: var. pwyu

[pɨlo aɉã] n. new moon

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[ŋarka ɉiɉa] adj. smiling; smiling face; happy

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[ri] v. read

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Dialect: Or. Assamese

[rubi] n. deaf

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[rúu] v. shed (as trees do of leaves)

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[sabũ] n. soap

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Dialect: Or. Assamese

[saha] n. cane rope

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. swha

[santú] n. tree

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[subu tuɁteɁ] n. a variety of wild strawberry

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[sɨɨ lutɨ] n. grazing ground

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[sɨxó] n. water channel

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[tako-laro] n. variety of a hard stone

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tejaɁ] n. millet (Setaria italica)

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[tiɁmjaɁ] v. stain; smudge

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ti’mya’-ti’sa

[tɨɁ] v. pound, strike

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[tɨko] n. money

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[tɨrɨ] n. forehead

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[tú] v. kick

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[uskul] n. school

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Dialect: or. English syn. wskul

[ɨtaɁ] n. stinger (of bee or wasp)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ata’

[xẽŋu] v. warm something

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[jamjó] n. floor of split bamboo

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[jasi parĩ] n. stork (Ciconia nigra)

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[jo tardu] n. a bamboo container for storing meat

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Dialect: syn. tardu

[joʎã lɨpa] n. midnight

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[ɲaŋa] v. put one’s head in

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[ɲima] cop. there isn’t; copula negator

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. do

[áagjaɁ] v. come to a wrong place or a wrong way

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[árbì] n. portion of pork offered to wife’s eldest living sister

Speaker: Tage Kanno