Apatani English

[aalú] n. potato or. Assamese

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Dialect: syn. byayuñ

[abjá] n. ladder; stepladder

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Dialect: var. abrv

[aʎĩ daʎi] n. afternoon

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[aĩ] n. gold

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[aku] n. uncle (esp. maternal) (Term of address) syn. nakú

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[alaɁ] n. hand

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[apĩ] v. warm (hand)

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[arĩ] adj. brittle; fragile; breakable

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[arɨɨ] n. bundle (esp. of bamboo)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[aɨɁ] v. forget

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[axóo pèerũ] n. a variety of bean

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[barɲo] adj. small flat object

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Dialect: ant. baarò var. bazo

[bĩpa] n. rope of bamboo skin

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[bosta] n. jute bag; gunny sack

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[bum] n. bomb

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Dialect: or. English

[bjodĩ] n. an element of ritual altar

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dĩxuɁ] n. skull

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. doosi’

[enda] n. fifth lunar moon; May

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[eneɁ] adv. without reason; without purpose; without work

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[ʎanɨ] n. one who blesses; God

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎóo] v. collect, esp. firewood

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[go] v. fly; soar

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gũkiɁ] v. bend; stoop

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[gjaɁ] v. wander; roam

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[haaja-mjoxa] n. famine; scarcity of food

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Dialect: syn. dwme

[heme] n. oath; promise

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[hoó] adj. spacious; roomy; capacious

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huɁpaɁ-huɁja] adj. lavish; extravagant

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨbaɁ] adj. next; following

Speaker: Nani Anga

[háako] n. entrance

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. áako

[háakò] n. entrance, entry, door

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[hùuʎiɁ] n. fat; oil

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ikũ] n. beewax, used for joining broken threads

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉarkũ] num. one thousand (term of enumeration)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉĩ] v. tie

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[kalaɁ] v. recognize; know

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kaciñ

[kamo] adj. dark

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[keená] n. black necked crane (Grus nigricollis)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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Dialect: var. kenda

[koɁbu] n. traditional relationship usually the maternal uncle to whom a portion of the sacrificial animal is offered

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Dialect: syn. ko’bw

[kobjã́] n. bracelet; bangle

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kolò] n. the day before yesterday

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[kuɁbã] v. keep something, esp. a container, upside down

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[laɁpù] v. close the hand to make a fist

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[lake] v. to cross legs

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[leko] v. cross

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[loɲì] n. two days

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[luuli hamã] n. Nepalese smartweed (Persicaria nepalensis); a variety of vegetable

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[me] v. search; look for; seek; check

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[mepĩ] n. a variety of ritual in which the shaman smears rice powder mixture on the walls

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[miɁbeɁ] v. blink; wink

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[mɨcǝr] adv. innovatively; ingenuously

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[mɨpjò] adj. easy (to do); good to do

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[mɨra] n. slave

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

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[nɨji] n. an element of loin loom

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[oho] n. child; son; daughter

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[oho búu] v. give birth

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[orĩ-pagĩ] adj. mixed color; stripes

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[paɁkǝr] v. encircle; surround; enclose

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[parbo] v. crawl across

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[paroɁhe] n. measure worth of a hen or paddy in a paro’ yagw; three persons which was the number of laborers hired with a hen or paro’ yagw full of paddy

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[pasǝr] n. extra; remainder

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[pã] v. cook by steaming in bamboo

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[pĩciɁ] n. mouse

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[pooɲó] adj. small (of cylinderical objects)

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Dialect: ant. pooro

[pɨluɁ pɨleɁ] adj. showy; flashy

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[pɨrɨ] n. wooden boundary of a hearth

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pɨtì] adj. near

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Dialect: syn. kucì

[pjapĩ] n. early maturing variety of rice

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[pá] v. stack; heap up; pile up

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[ŋaare] adj. lose taste or inability to eat more

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Dialect: syn. qaatw

[ŋarka ɉiɉa] adj. smiling; smiling face; happy

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[ŋɨpa] pron. for me

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[reɁbja] n. ladder

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Dialect: syn. abya

[rimi-romo] adj. innocent; confused

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[roha] v. dry over fire

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[rujó] n. a variety of cane earring

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[rɨɁti] v. bind tightly

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[rúu] v. shed (as trees do of leaves)

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[saɁka-saɁka] v. hesitate; be uncertain; be of two minds

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[sarɨ] n. teacher

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Dialect: Or. English

[siɲiɁ tasĩ] n. a variety of small sized larvae

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[sor] v. slip; skid

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[sɨɨ ixa] n. cow dung

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[sɨxaɁ] v. scratch; scrape; abrade

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[taɉu-rijã] n. variety of a plant; Job’s tear

Speaker: Tage Numpi

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

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[tarlũ] adj. barren; childless

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[toɁ] v. descend; go down; climb down

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[tõ] v. offer; give

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[xẽ] v. toil

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Dialect: syn. apó xeñ

[xoɁ] v. crow (as a cock)

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[jana] n. a species of bamboo

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[jata] adj. color pattern of she-mithun, described as overall black with a white spots on either side

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[jorlu] n. vegetable garden located away from the village

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[ɲaa] v. point; aim; direct

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[ɲadu-ɲabo] v. rebuff; brush off

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[ɲibu] n. Apatani shaman

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[ɲuɁpaɁ] v. erase; wipe out; rub off

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