Apatani English

[abíi-tarɨ] n. dress; clothes; garments; attire

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[adáa] n. a person who has always had only one wife

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎã xɨ] num. sixty

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ahi] n. tooth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɉĩbò] n. friend (used as both term of reference and address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[anɨ̀-ci] n. step mother

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aroɁ] adj. lucky

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arò daʎi] n. forenoon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bakoɁ] n. box

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[baró] n. brother

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[behe] n. bamboo shoot

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byapu’, wtw rwbw, wtw bwrw

[biɉe lẽda] n. path leading to or inside the bamboo garden

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[buulì] n. variety of rats seen after bamboo flowering in large numbers

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[buutũ] n. a person who remains bachelor

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[buũtɨ] n. tenth month of the year; October

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨɲã] n. last year

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjoɁhú] v. brighten; light up; illuminate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ceɁ] v. cut (as with scissor)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ceɁsu] v. argue; contend; claim; wrangle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ciɁ] v. hold (with both arms)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[daarò] adj. big step

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. daazó

[daɲi] n. sun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[doha-dolo] n. world; realm

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

[dorgi] n. earthworm

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[durgu] n. wooden trough

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dùuhi] v. vacate a seat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎoɁro] n. sharp edge of the sword

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎòobó] v. jump across

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[genda hamã] n. Redflower Ragleaf; Fireweed (Crassocephalum crepidioides)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. hafañ hamañ

[golu pakaɁ] n. dimple on the cheek

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[goɲó] adj. small (of a mouth); low voice

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gorò

[haago] adj. vain; haughty; vainglorious

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heme] v. promise; vow; pledge

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ho] n. and

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hoɁko-hoɁpe] adj. tangled; knotty

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɉã lopa] n. a stick presented to a child with developemntal delay by her maternal grandparent

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ipũ-tarũ] n. a variety of caterpillar

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ĩci] v. reach

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉihiɁ] adj. quiet; silent

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉiimu] n. giddiness

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉiɉe] n. truth

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaco kapaá] adv. dirty; soiled; smeared; filthy

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaʎu-kaca] adj. unrecognizable

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kamó] n. bribe; kickback; inducement

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kurmu] n. grasshopper

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. kormu

[kuu] v. throw; hurl

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨmĩ talo] n. a variety of brass plate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kɨpaɁ] n. banana

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kwpa’ ahì

[la] conj. and

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁŋǝr] n. wrist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lar] v. challenge; bet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lo] post. with; by

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[luʎã] v. imitate speaking

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨɁ] v. shed, as leaves do from the trees

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨgeɁ] n. popliteal space; hollow of the knee

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[midĩ] n. nursery for paddy; seed bed

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mopla] n. muffler

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[mɨbjú] v. offend (by doing something)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨdĩ-kɨlĩ] adv. intentionally

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mwdiñpa

[mɨdó] n. rain; weather

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨgĩ] adj. beneficial; profitable, of works

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨpjò] adj. easy (to do); good to do

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjokó] n. open space outside the village

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nene] n. bruise; contusion; black and blue mark

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽsu] v. jostle; scramble

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨka] pron. your; second person singular genitive pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[née] v. wrestle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paɁɲi] n. stick, usually used for support

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. lopa

[par] v. crawl under something; creep; wriggle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[para] v. crawl in

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. parliñ

[pimpú] n. grains of cooked rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. apiñ pimpú

[puʎe] n. cloth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨgo] n. matter; subject; affair

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. hago

[pɨlo tatu] n. half moon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjoɁ] v. detach (a splinter from a wood

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pìtaɁ] v. slap; spank; hit; strike

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ribo] v. throw something across

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sati] n. umbrella

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: Or. Assamese

[sãsũ] adj. weedy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨcã] n. earth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨpiɁ] n. pangolin

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨɲi] n. sugar or. Assamese

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. swni

[tago] n. a variety of tree

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tamjo] n. a variety of tree

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tapjò] adj. melodious; nice to hear

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tajã] n. bee (single)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tãgɨ] adj. drunk; inebriated

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tãpjo] adj. tasty (of drinks)

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: ant. tañru

[tihiɁ] adj. sweet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tii] v. pour

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. to

[tutu nanu] n. bumble bee

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tuuli] n. post; pillar

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨmo] v. suspend; postpone

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨpi-tɨpo] adj. neat; accurate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[uusǝr] n. exit of a hole

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. uunw

[xetaɁ] n. book

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno