Apatani English

[acĩ] pron. group; crowd

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. atañ

[akɨ] int. interjection to express pain

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amí] n. elder sister (term of reference)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[asè] v. wash; clean

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axáa] adj. old; aged; elderly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ajo-asiɁ] n. ancestors; progenitors

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɲìnɨ] n. second

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aíi] n. blood

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[basɨɁ] n. bank (of a river); riverbank; shore

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[botoli] n. bottle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[bɨlũ-bɨle] adj. sickly, unappetizing var. buluñ-bwle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. buluñ-bwle

[bɨso] adj. afraid; scared; terrified

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ciruɁ] n. pocket; pouch

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. cíkù

[corkè] adj. strong (as of taste)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dahɨ-daaxe] v. go here and there

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[danɨ] n. heavy wooden hammer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dĩ nanɨ] n. pillow; headrest

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. garu

[doopɨɁ] v. sleep together with head in same direction

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. doosi’

[doxo-acã] n. corner in the house reserved for ritual altars

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨme] n. famine; food shortage

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. haaya-myoxa

[dɨpjonɨ] n. thief; robber; bandit

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[elù] n. reed flute

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[empɨ] n. paddy husk

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. pwnañ

[ʎeɁ] v. roll something (esp. thread between the palms)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎo] v. jump

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gaɉor] n. carrot

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[gasu] v. have verbal quarrel

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[goi tabú] n. common Indian monitor lizard (Varanus bengalensis)

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. gyoi tabú

[gɨ] v. wear clothing; pregnant; bear (fruit or leaves, of a tree)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hamã] n. vegetable

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heɁi] n. a portion of meat

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽsǝr] adj. not having any burden or impediment

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiŋ] num. three

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ho] n. and

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huuda] adj. bright

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hɨɉo] n. a variety of bamboo

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɲò] n. the ninth day of the ten-day post-natal confinement of a mother and newborn

Speaker: Nani Anga

[haágjá] n. entrance, door

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉar] num. thousand

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉare] num. one thousand

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: etym. jar + he

[ɉarpĩ] v. hysteria; sickness caused by the spirit of a dead person

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉihĩ] n. rag; scrap of cloth; dirty linen

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kakur] v. look back

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kasɨ-kape] v. ignore; pay attention to

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kooló] n. iliac crest

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[lake] v. to cross legs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[leɁtaɁ] n. animal skin rug used as a mat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lelaɁ] adj. fresh; new

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lẽ] v. build ladder on a tree to climb it

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨmĩ alló] n. lateral melleolus bone

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[maɲã] n. traditional friend from other tribe

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miɁjeɁ] v. wink

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[miɉiɁ] n. one well versed in traditional literature

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: etym. ami’ (eye) + áfò (skin)

[muku sudu] n. smoking pipe

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨdu-mɨje] n. strands of hair extending down the forehead, as often kept by young women

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨriɁ] v. initiate doing something

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨxoɁ] v. do something differently

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽsu] v. jostle; scramble

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨmpa] pron. why

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. nwmopa syn. nwtepa

[nɨpu apĩ] n. feast on the occasion of the birth of a newborn baby

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[o sadǝr] n. bamboo funnel for filtering beer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paleɁ] n. excess; extra; surplus; remainder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[parlĩ] v. crawl out

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[piiʎa] n. ritual performed to propitiate pìfá úì

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pilá aláa] n. rice water

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pimpù] n. tiffin; light meal; small amount of food item (esp. for offering to deities)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pinto] prep. above; over

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨɉoda] adv. later on; after sometime

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨlo aɉã] n. new moon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨtaɁ] n. a variety of tree; wild pear (Pyrus pashia)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨxo] n. maize cob

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[riri tami] n. a variety of creeper used as a vegetable; Chinese creeper (Mikania micrantha)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rĩbi] n. spider

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. riimi syn. wci riimi

[ríi] v. sew; stitch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[salĩ] v. expel out

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sarpu sarse] n. an early ripening variety of millet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãda] n. long wooden post that support a traditional house on both sides

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sorò] adj. thick (of objects like a thread)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. sozó

[suɁ] v. probe; explore; investigate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɁcè] v. cut into two

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tadoɁ tasã] n. a variety of yellow beads

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tado’

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

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tapiɁ ŋɨɨla] n. owl

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. qwwla; pwtiñ qwwla

[tapɨ] n. an element of loin loom in the form of a rod used to tighten the threads while weaving

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tapju] n. a species of bamboo

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tarlũ] adj. barren; childless

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tãxɨ̃] v. get drunk

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[to] v. pour

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tii

[tooro] n. Rhino beetle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tõsǝr] v. advise; suggest; counsel; guide

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jadĩ] n. storage basket of bamboo or cane

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[japa] n. young man

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲaɁtu] n. knife

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[áakũ] v. come early

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ádù] v. get pricked (by a thorn)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì inɨ] n. one who can communicate with the god, esp. with spirits of dead ones

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì ácì] v. dive inside water

Speaker: Tage Kanno