Apatani English

[abã] v. bury (esp. in ash)

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[abju-axeɁ] n. movement; motion; activity

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Dialect: var. abyú-ate’

[aʎã pɨʎi] num. forty

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[alì innánɨ] n. stilt; pair of pole equipped with footrest to enable a person to walk at a height from the ground

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[ane] n. mother (term of address)

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Dialect: syn. ama

[arã] adj. close, of relation

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[arrò] n. vein, artery, nerve, tendon

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Dialect: var. argò

[arɨɨ] n. horn (anatomical)

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[asuɁ] v. sneeze

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[busuɁ] v. get loose; loosen; slacken

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[bɨpɨɁ tabú] n. a variety of poisonous snake (Pareas monticola)

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[búu] v. give birth to var. bww

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Dialect: var. bww

[colo] n. a decorative element of babó

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[cɨgɨ-caga] adj. lean and thin

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Dialect: syn. rwgw-raga

[daapo] n. a gift item on the occasion of Mida, a part of Apatani marriage ceremony

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[eɁlaɁ] adj. good in shooting

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[ẽtɨ pataɁ] n. wooden try on which to beat while harvesting paddy

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[ʎeɁbe] n. larva of water beetle

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Dialect: syn. bukofe’be

[gikoɁ] v. open (a hinged door)

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Dialect: ant. gipiñ syn. gipyañ

[gulũ-gɨle] adj. lukewarm; tepid

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[haatĩ bɨlĩ] adv. satisfactorily; confidently; convincingly

Speaker: Nani Anga

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. genda hamañ

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

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heɁtaɁ] n. wooden agricultural implement (esp. used during construction of bundhs)

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[hiɁtĩ] v. bash against something

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[hõkiɁ] v. bend; stoop

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Dialect: var. huñki’

[ĩgjaɁ] v. astray; off course; go the wrong way

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[ɉigɉiro] n. kind of a traditional shawl

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[kago-tago] adj. showy; pretentious; ostentatious

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[kami-kami] adv. in front of one’s eye

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[kapũ] adj. strange; bizzare

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

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Dialect: syn. ko’bu

[koʎũ-kocũ] adj. imbalanced; fall down due to imbalance

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[kooʎoɁ] adj. not rounded; uneven

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Dialect: ant. koofañ

[kooxeɁ alló] n. ilium bone

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[korlã] n. thunderbolt; ritual performed to prevent thunderbolt

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[koso] adj. lengthwise; placed lengthwise

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Dialect: ant. kopw

[koju tapjo] n. coccyx; tail bone

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

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[kurmu] n. grasshopper

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Dialect: var. kormu

[kusuɁ] n. hay; straw

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Dialect: syn. lwsi’

[kǝrǝ talo] n. mirror

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Dialect: syn. karo talo; kako yalo; kvlo yalo, kwrv talo

[laɁdu mɨrĩ] n. elbow

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Dialect: var. la’du midiñ

[laɁpã tuli] n. post of là’pañ

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[laɁpó kupù] n. biceps; muscle on the arm

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[lãku] adj. tilted, esp. the head

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Dialect: etym. láañ (from láaqú) + kù

[leɁbeɁ] v. flap (wings) with helplessness

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[lẽ] v. filter; sieve; sift

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[li lilã] n. cicada (Cicadidae)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[lotɨ] adj. honest; straightforward

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[luɲoɁ] v. practice speaking

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[lɨbã] n. baby

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[martul] n. hammer

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[mataɁ] adj. flat

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Dialect: syn. me’ta’

[mã] v. finish a building; put roof on a building

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[miju] n. human beings

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Dialect: syn. neha

[murũ] n. first month of the lunar year; January; name of the festival celebrated in January

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[mɨcu] n. fire accident, esp. burning down house (s)

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[mɨteɁ] v. knock down something

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[nar] v. borrow

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[narikol] n. coconut

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[no] pron. you; second person singular pronoun

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[nɨɁrɨɁ] v. run into somebody

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[nɨɉi] n. a variety of tree; ghost tree (Sterculia urens)

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[nɨri pɨsa] n. a variety of pine; Himalayan hemlock (Tsuga dumosa)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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Dialect: syn. lwri pwsa

[pǝǝ] letter name p the letter representing p in the Apatani alphabet

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[pa] v. cut (by striking); fight; peck

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[paì] n. a variety of bird

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[poɁpǝr] n. bamboo split used to make sounds to scare birds away, esp. from agricultural fields

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[poteɁ] adj. full

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[pulúu] adj. white; fair

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[pɨdi pɨʎiɁ] n. watch hut in the paddy fields

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Dialect: syn. pwdi pwzi’

[pɨse] n. a variety of bird; Dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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[pjarmo] n. feathers, usually of leaves, of an arrow; fletching

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[ŋurlo] v. move down something heavy using lever

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[rimi-romo] adj. innocent; confused

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

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[sãtǝr] adj. fully grown

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[sor] v. slip; skid

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[sudu] n. bamboo container

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[sɨɨ atúu] n. calf

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[sɨxó] n. water channel

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[tahɨɁ] adj. hard of hearing

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[tala] n. lock

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[tiɁmjaɁ] v. stain; smudge

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Dialect: syn. ti’mya’-ti’sa

[tiɁpaɁ] v. erase; wipe off; rub out

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[tur] v. be alive

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Dialect: var. tor

[tɨɁ] v. pound, strike

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[tɨleɁ] n. a variety of garlic

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Dialect: syn. tale’

[ɨbjoɁ] adj. long

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Dialect: syn. obyo’

[xa] v. peel; pare; skin; take the skin off

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[xɨ] num. six

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[jamu mɨri] n. charcoal; embers

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[jasi paɉeɁ] n. water birds

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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[jo jaxo] n. skewer (for meat)

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[ɲaaɲiɁ] n. honey bee

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[ɲaŋa] v. put one’s head in

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[ɲã] v. move with the head leading

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[ɲãbjũ] v. put one’s head into the water

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Dialect: syn. zañbuñ