Apatani English

[aalú] n. potato or. Assamese

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byayuñ

[abã] n. burning pain

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[ahi] n. tooth

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[akã] prep. bottom; beneath

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[alo sudu] n. small bamboo salt container carried for feeding mithuns

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[apã keemã] n. male dragonfly

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[ariɁ] v. choke; retch

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[ato] n. grandfather or father in law (term of address)

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[aɨɁ] v. forget

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[axɨ] n. comb

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[aɲã] n. year

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[car] v. boil

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[coga-coga] adv. waddling; manner of walking with short steps and swaying motion

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[cì] v. bite

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[daɲopa] adv. aimlessly

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[dimu] n. hair (of head)

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[doɉiɁ roɁpo] n. Asian Fairy Bluebird (Irena puella)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨroɁ] n. medicine; drug

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[eɁdaɁ] v. shoot at target

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. e’xa’

[elì] n. paddy seed; paddy preserved for next season’s sowing

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ʎaɁpjo] n. dry cultivation area (esp. for millet)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎiɁdo] n. food for pigs

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[gaɁciɁ] v. hold something at its tip or edge

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[goɁ] v. measure with outstretched thumb and finger

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[harbjã] adj. full (as of moon)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[henɨ] n. a relative; loved one

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽɉu] n. attitude; way of thinking

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[hilĩ] n. clotted blood

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hoɁjo-hoɁci] v. mixed up; mingle; intermingle; amalgamate

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. ho’gyo-ho’fo

[itú pumĩ] n. a variety of small dragonfly

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ĩrɨɁ] v. meet; meet up with; run into

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉo] v. lift; carry

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[ɉú] v. weigh; measure

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[kamo] n. darkness

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[kecĩ] v. to know how to write

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[kosiɁ kosiɁ] pron. one after the other

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[kɨmǝr] n. a person who castrates pigs

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Dialect: syn. kenná

[laɁbu] n. sleeve; part of a garment that covers the arms

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[laɁdu mɨrĩ] n. elbow

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Dialect: var. la’du midiñ

[laɁdɨ goɁhe] n. one unit of la’dw, equivalent to the distance between outstretched thumb and forefinger

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[laɁrĩ] n. a hoop earring worn by women

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[lake] v. to cross legs

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[laxɨɁ] adj. cold

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Dialect: ant. gubu’

[lukã] v. speak for a long time

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[lɨbã] n. knee

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[lɨpi] v. wash or clean the feet

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[male] n. luggage; load; baggage

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[Misã] n. common term for non-Apatani tribes like Nyishis, Tagins, Galos, etc.

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[moru] n. cheek

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[mõpaɁ] v. chase; drive away; persue

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[mɨɉa] v. finish doing something

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[mɨlãɉa] pron. all; everybody

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[mɨmeɁ] v. initiate

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[mɨra] n. slave

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[mɨrɨɁ] v. assist somebody in doing something

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[neha] n. man; human beings

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨɨ] v. instigate; provoke

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[o xuiɁ hamã] n. a variety of vegetable; creeping woodsorrel (Oxalis corniculata)

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[oho búudu alo] n. birthday

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[paroɁ papúu] n. white chicken

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[paroɁ jo] n. chicken (meat)

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[patuɁ] n. sharp edged stump of bamboo or other tree

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[patǝr] n. cage

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[pĩcuɁ] n. bottle; elongated liquid container made from the hard hollowed and dried skin of gourd

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[purtú pèerũ] n. a variety of bean

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Dialect: syn. amu pèeruñ; po’tuñ pèeruñ

[pɨxo] n. maize cob

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[ŋurca] v. move up something heavy using lever

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[rãtɨ] n. sacred grove

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[rubiɁ jarú] n. right ear

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[rupu] n. silver

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Dialect: var. rwpu

[sanɨ] n. tree

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[siĩbo] n. large-sized larvae of dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. tasiñ siñbo

[soku-soka] v. tease; make fun of; poke fun at; trifle with

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[supũ] n. world

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[sɨrã] n. post; pole; pillar

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[sɨɨ] n. cow; ox

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[sɨɨ atúu] n. calf

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[sɨxá] n. an altar

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[taɁti] n. cockroach

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tago] n. a variety of tree

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tahĩ] n. mushroom

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[tapǝr] n. cane leaves used during ritual in Myoko festival

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tariɁ] n. fern

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[taxɨ tabu] n. bed bug

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[tãdɨɁ] v. get poisoned by drinking

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tãpjo] adj. tasty (of drinks)

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: ant. tañru

[teɁ] v. cut (esp. bushes)

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[teɁdaɁ] v. lean against something

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[tõ] v. display

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[tutu popo] adj. impulsive; impetuous; reckless

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[ugù] n. fireplace; hearth

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[ura imiɁ] n. second hearth towards the back of the house

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[jaabũ] adj. dull (of a person)

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[jamjó] n. floor of split bamboo

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[jarì] n. traditional loincloth worn by males

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[ju] v. chant an ayú

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[ɲẽ] v. chew; masticate

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[ɲimũ] n. young woman

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[ɲoxe] n. black panther (Panthera pardus)

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