Apatani English

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

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

[akì talã] n. dog of brownish color

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[alɨɁ] v. exchange; interchange; swap

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[alì lɨpĩ] n. instep

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[anu-abã] n. brothers; sibling

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[apã keemã] n. male dragonfly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[asã] v. laud; praise; extol

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[aúu] n. son-in-law (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bĩpa] n. rope of bamboo skin

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[bũ] v. crowd

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[bɨpɨɁ] prep. under; beneath; below

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[bjarbó] v. jump across

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[cĩ] v. know; comprehend; understand

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[daaraɁ] adj. stiff (as of a cliff)

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[daɲi agjã] n. altar for propitiating Dazi (the Sun God)

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[dɨbũ] n. greedy; gluttonous

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[dɨroɁ] n. medicine; drug

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[ʎiiʎiɁ] adj. horrifying

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. aha fiifi’

[geɁ] v. stick; adhere to; glue

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. age’

[goiɁ] adj. whole; entire

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gomu] n. facial hair; beard; moustache

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gorbã] n. shoulder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gorá] n. a section of Apatani village council

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[gjapja-gjasa] v. spread by throwing

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haaja] adj. hungry; famished; starving

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haɉǝr] num. thousand

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[harú] adj. popular (as of one’s personality)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨpe hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Elatostema platyphyllum)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨsò] n. a variety of bamboo

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. bihé

[iɁce] n. a night’s interval

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[icu] adj. few; some; scant; meagre

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. ice

[ɉaaku-ɉaaʎa] v. stagger; walk unsteadily

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[ɉabjò aɉi] n. fields located far away from the villages

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[ɉar] v. fly; soar; glide

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉimi-ɉaama] adj. hazy; smoggy

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[ɉoɉuru] n. a fruit bearing creeper (Silene sp.)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[ɉola] n. bag

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[ka] v. see; look at

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[kapi] v. eat up; finish eating

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[katú] v. watch from a distance

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[kolĩ] v. throw out (from the mouth)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[leɁpì] n. Chinese green onion (Allium fistulosum)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tale’; twle’

[leŋò aɉi] n. rice field near the village

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. jabyò aji

[lumur] v. speak wrongly; say something by mistake

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[lɨkè] v. cross legs

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[lɨpjo] n. sole

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[miɁɉu] n. eye discharge

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[milã] n. a variety of weed usually in the paddy fields

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[mipá sarse] n. an early ripening variety of millet mainly grown in paddy field bundhs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨmiɁ] v. extinguish; douse; put out (fire)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ami’

[mɨnì] v. prune; trim

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨpjò] adj. easy (to do); good to do

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[mɨpjó] v. do something secretly

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[mɨjaɁ] v. interfere; encroach

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[mjodi] n. far off place

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[mjokũ] n. ritual performed for the well-being of plants

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[mjɨ-milo] n. married couple

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[nunu] pron. second person plural pronoun

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

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[paakuɁ] n. plate

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. paaka’

[pakaɁ] adj. depression; dent; trough

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. puñtu

[paroɁ patǝr] n. cage for chicken

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pĩciɁ] v. grasp something by pinching

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[poɁtũla] adv. squatting

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[popǝr] n. butterfly

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[pota] n. paper

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[pɨgĩ] n. vulture

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[pɨri] n. chicken coop

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[pɨsa lẽda] n. a variety of highly decorated and colorful skirt for young girls

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[pɨjo] n. Rufous-necked hornbill (Aceros nepalensis)

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[ŋoɁrò] adj. big (plot of land)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. qo’zó

[ŋoo] v. get lost; get missing; go astray

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[ŋɨi] n. fish

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[raa] v. avenge; take revenge for

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[rã] v. tie; tether

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[rũ] v. be mad; go insane; become crazy

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. roñ

[sado] n. boyfriend; male lover

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. miya

[sati] n. umbrella

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Dialect: Or. Assamese

[selɨ] v. pull something in

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[soj tarɨ] n. sweater

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[surúu] adj. deceptive; crafty; treacherous

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[sɨlo-holo] adv. hurriedly; excitedly

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[sɨmǝr] n. silt; sand

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[tabe axóo] n. sugarcane

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twbe axóo

[tacĩ] v. understand; comprehend

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[takũ putu] n. a lesser variety of Muruñ festival

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tapĩ] n. a species of bamboo

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[tuu] v. pick up

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[tuuma] adj. courageous; daring

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. tamiñ

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

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Dialect: var. taniñ

[tɨpe] n. tattoo

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[tɨxɨɁ] adj. curly

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[tù] v. push

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[ubúu] n. hole

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[jabĩ] n. a variety of bamboo (Cephalostachium capitatum)

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[ɲaɉeɁ] v. to make expression as when one is about to cry

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[ɲapaɁ] v. criticize; disapprove

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[úì] n. spirit; god; devil

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[úì bar] v. a variety of chanting during a particular ritual

Speaker: Tage Kanno