Apatani English

[abba-bãkũ] n. great-grandfather

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aci-aʎá] adj. precarious; critical

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[ací-búrù] n. brothers; siblings

Dialect: var. ací-baró, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ahì] n. fruit

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[ai-are] adj. annoyed; vexed; exasperating; problematic

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[apiɁ] v. break (by dropping)

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[axɨ] n. guts; entrails; viscera

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[baarò] adj. big flat object

Dialect: ant. bazo, barzo, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[be] v. fasten or tie

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[bjuhu] n. grave; tomb

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[búu] v. give birth to var. bww

Dialect: var. bww, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[car] v. boil

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[cibjɨ] adj. smart; quick; agile

Dialect: syn. byací, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cikã] part. like; similar

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cuha] v. plunge; plummet; nosedive

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cuukiɁ] n. metallic poker; safety pin

Dialect: syn. ufañ kuti, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dãxɨ] v. beat to death; kill by beating

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[deɁ] v. plait or weave

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[ditǝr] n. lumps of soil (esp. in paddy fields)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[domĩ] adj. cloudy; rainy

Dialect: ant. doqe’, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨraa-loɲã] n. in the coming years

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[gaɁce] v. break by clutching something

Dialect: ant. ga’po, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gaɁɉeɁ] v. soften something by grasping repeatedly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[guɁ] v. turn or turn oneself over (esp. in lying position)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[guli] n. bullet

Dialect: or. Assamese, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[heɁ] v. cut with a knife with the sharp edge away from the user, as in smoothening something

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiɁtĩ] v. bash against something

Speaker: Nani Anga

[iʎĩ] n. rectum

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉabjò] n. outskirts, usually of a village

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[ɉalo] conj. although; even if; or

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[ɉarpaɁ] v. toss away

Dialect: syn. jaapa’, Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉiɉepa] adv. really; genuinely; honestly

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[ɉoɉǝr] n. green june beetle

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[kaʎu-kaca] v. fail to recognize

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[ko] prep. in; at

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[kɨcè] n. small bamboo cup used for measuring rice or millet

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[kɨri harnɨ] n. businessman; broker; agent; middleman

Dialect: syn. kwri du’nw, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨɁ] v. put, esp. grains into a container

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[lɨpja] n. shin

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[lɨtaɁ] n. cockspur

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[miɁbjoɁ amu] n. eyelash

Dialect: syn. mi’be’ amu, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[miɁca] adj. blind

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miɁɉu] n. eye discharge

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[miɁtĩ amu] v. eyebrow

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[more] n. forest

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨgjaɁ] v. do wrongly; commit a mistake

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨnì] v. prune; trim

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨtù] n. beginning

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[mɨjaɁ] v. interfere; encroach

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjɨ-oho] n. family; wife and children

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nakó] n. portion of village (esp. the lower one)

Dialect: ant. nami, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[naŋe] n. a unit of measure equivalent to the width of a palm

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[nar] v. borrow

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[neha appú] n. primrose (Primula spp.)

Dialect: syn. bagañ rizo, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽbu] n. a house away from the main street

Dialect: var. niñbu ant. neñto, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨ] pron. what

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pageɁ] v. light a fire; set fire; ignite

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[par] v. make or light fire; ignite fire

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[parɨ] v. rotate

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[paxo] n. narrow channel in the wet rice cultivation fields

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: syn. he’te’, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[petú] v. break something into two or more pieces

Dialect: syn. pece, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨbjɨ] adj. cunning, clever, quick

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[pjaxa] n. cane basket used by males for fetching firewood

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pár] v. screw; twist; turn

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[ŋɨpa] pron. for me

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rã] v. tie; tether

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[rilɨɁ] v. throw in

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[sǝǝ] letter name s the letter representing s in the Apatani alphabet

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[sãtĩ] adj. of same age; contemporary

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[sãxe page] n. a variety of bead

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[sẽ] v. wither; dry

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[sitãpa] adv. like this; this way

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[subu arɨɨ] n. mithun horn

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[subu sihɁ] n. pond or puddle where mithuns gather to drink water

Example: Photo by Talyang Millo

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[sɨ] v. claw; scratch

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[sɨ] v. die

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[sɨbi laɁhĩ] n. a variety of creeper used for decoration

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[sɨbĩ] n. goat

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[sɨʎoɁ] n. river bank; beach

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨtɨ] n. elephant

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taʎiɁ] n. bruise; contusion

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tagjaɁ] v. hear wrongly

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tapoɁ] n. variety of tall grass

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tapǝr] adv. terrible (to hear)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tarxɨɁ] n. break something with hand

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tãgɨ] adj. drunk; inebriated

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tõ] v. offer; give

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tulí] v. copy; replicate; click (a photo with a camera)

Dialect: or. Assamese, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ude] n. house

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[ɨrã] n. storage space usually built outside the main wall of the house

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[xǝǝ] letter name x the letter representing x in the Apatani alphabet

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[xãxã-dɨrã] adv. firmly; fervently; forcefully

Dialect: syn. xañxañ, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xeɁ] v. winnow

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[xeɁlĩ] v. take off; uncover

Dialect: ant. xe’lw’, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jahĩ] adj. rotten (esp. of wood)

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[ɲagó] n. snout

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[ɲoxe] n. black panther (Panthera pardus)

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[áamì atúu] n. kitten

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[ákojá] pron. something else

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[ápù] n. sphere; globe

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