Apatani English

[ado] n. stalk; main stem of a herbaceous plant

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎoo] n. tongue

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎí-aróo] n. storm; rainstorm; windstorm

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amã] n. roof

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apúu] n. arrow

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[araɁ] v. tie

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axa-ajá] v. burning sensation

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[barbo-ʎibo] n. wife’s sister’s husband (term of reference)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨdã] n. precipice; cliff

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[caãkò] n. a piece of flat object, like a piece of broken earthen pot

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cahiɁ] adj. miserly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cãtɨ-dotɨ] n. universe; cosmos

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[diipaɁ] v. peel off; detach

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dimu] n. hair (of head)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dobɨ-takǝr alo] n. Thursday

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dáa] v. take step; pace; tread

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎã] v. bless

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[golu pakaɁ] n. dimple on the cheek

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gjáa] v. spread (esp. seeds or sand by throwing)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[harceɁ] n. fold of the groin

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hemĩ-hẽɉa] adj. intimate; open (of relationship)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽɉiɁ] adj. happy; joyful; exultant

Speaker: Nani Anga

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hime] n. child; youngster

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hirũ] n. tusk (of full grown wild pig)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ɉarkĩ] n. jerakin; a container

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[ɉihiɁ rara] adj. silent; peaceful

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaka-taka] v. take stock of; make enquiries

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[kamó] n. bribe; kickback; inducement

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kapanɨ he] adv. everything

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. amánw he

[keɁba] v. put cloth on somebody

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kecĩ] v. to know how to write

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kooxeɁ alló] n. ilium bone

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kóo] v. move the hips, as when closing a door with the hands full or bumping against someone

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[laɁpã] n. wooden community platform usually belonging to a clan

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lãgja] adj. (dog) with a white neck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lebe] v. be fed up of eating too much or too frequently of the same item

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lĩgja] n. exit; doorway; gateway

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lopo] n. half day

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. lobyañ

[lɨci] n. left (leg)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. nwri pwsa

[mẽdɨ] n. buffalo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[midĩ] n. nursery for paddy; seed bed

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miʎĩ] n. tip (of a plant or a tree)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miikɨ] adj. belonging to others; not own

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mikĩ] n. title used for dead males

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. misi

[modu-mobo] adj. rude; undisciplined; unruly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mogo alló] n. cheekbone

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨbju] v. contaminate (esp. liquids)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨgĩ] adj. beneficial; profitable, of works

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨɉù-mɨmjo] n. ways of doing; custom

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨmjaɁ] v. smudge; smear

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mja] v. collect contributions; collect

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. xa

[nami] n. portion of village, esp. the upper one

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. nako

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨpa] pron. for you; second person singular dative pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ohoo] v. feed

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pabú] n. valley; gully

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paduɁ] v. damage by cutting

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[palã tɨŋá] n. plum

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[patã] n. traditional labour gang

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[patã aɉo] v. hire a labaour gang

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paxɨɁ] adj. late; delayed; overdue; behind schedule

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paju] n. glue usually of plant origin

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[piɁ] v. bear; put up with

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨʎe] num. four

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: etym. pwfi + he

[pɨleɁ] n. feather

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjo] v. open (as eye)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋarka] v. smile

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋɨra] n. variety of a migratory fish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋɨɲì] pron. we two; first person dual pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rako] n. tortoise

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. rwko syn. samiñ rako

[reɁke] n. ceiling

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[roɁnɨ] n. hen

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. ro’po

[saɁca] v. get excited; be motivated

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. du’ca

[sarxe sarse] n. a late ripening variety of millet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[supũ tarɨ] n. traditional dress for ceremonial occasions

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨbi bidɨ] n. a variety of monkey

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨmi] n. lake

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tabu nɨmĩ] n. a variety of plant (Arisaema)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tagur ẽso] n. a variety of weed

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tagì] n. sickle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tai belã] n. a variety of acacia tree usually used for hedges

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tamĩ] n. Common Indian madder (Rubia cordifolia)

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twmiñ

[tanĩ] n. variety of a plant; wild sesame (Perilla frutescens)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. twniñ

[tape hamã] n. vegetable of pumpkin leaves

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tariɁ burtaɁ] n. a variety of snake

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[tau jamu] n. firefly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taxoɁ] v. disagree; disobey

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[turlaɁ] n. glass

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. tùla’

[tɨɁ] v. pound, strike

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xũta] n. timber; wooden post

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨ] v. slide while in sitting position; scoot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨtĩ] v. compare

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[joʎã] n. dead of night

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[ɲaɁɲĩ] n. fermented rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲabe] v. frown; scowl

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲaŋo] n. five years

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲãpo tasĩ] n. prawn

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ágè] v. drain out (water from a field)

Speaker: Tage Kanno