Apatani English

[abjũ] v. give a finishing touch by filling up soil (of a hole in the soil) or by binding

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aci takǝr] n. star

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ací] n. elder brother’s wife (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[adã] n. spear

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[adĩ] v. add; include; incorporate; admix

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[anee] v. provide packing or support to join or mend something.

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[artĩ bɨlĩ] n. testicle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[asó] n. length

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bakaɁ] n. dent; depression

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bardĩ] n. fate; destiny

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[barr] v. chant in a loud manner as when performing some traditional Apatani rituals

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bibuɁ] n. gun

Dialect: syn. mubu’ var. bebu’, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[biɉe ɲaaɲi] n. lichen around bamboo nodes syn. bije yatań, subu zaazi

Dialect: syn. bije yatań, subu zaazi, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[buʎã] n. traditional village council of the Apatanis

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨɨ] v. give birth to

Dialect: var. buu, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjaɲó] adj. small (esp. of flower)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjuxɨ̃] n. cemetery; burial ground; graveyard

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bárì] n. traditional ballad (esp. in the genre of the Nyishis)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[caaŋeɁ-caaŋeɁ] adj. intense; stinging

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cicĩ] n. a variety of ritual (esp. to ward off malevolent spirit)

Dialect: ant. twgò, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dalĩ] n. path made by a hunter; hunting track

Dialect: var. dwliñ, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dekĩ pɨcã] n. clay pot

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[embĩ xãcu] n. cane or bamboo basket used as rice container

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ẽxo] n. rice stalk; portion of a stalk

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gaiɁ] v. sing

Dialect: or. Assamese, Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gijã jorli] n. cabbage leaf mustard seed

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gõdu apĩ] n. feast after settlement of a dispute

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gjoi tabú] n. common Indian monitor lizard (Varanus bengalensis)

Dialect: var. goi tabú, Speaker: Tage Numpi

[haaʎĩ patã] n. labor gang engaged in transplanting of paddy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haasǝr] n. the internodal part of a bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haaja] adj. hungry; famished; starving

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽpa] v. recall; remember

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hɨbaɁ] adj. next; following

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɲò] n. the ninth day of the ten-day post-natal confinement of a mother and newborn

Speaker: Nani Anga

[háako] n. entrance

Dialect: syn. áako, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[híi] v. chant; intone; incant

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hùuʎiɁ] n. fat; oil

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ipoɁ] n. yeast; yeast cake used to ferment grains while preparing beer

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kako talo] n. mirror

Dialect: syn. kvrv talo; kako yalo; kvlo yalo, kwrv talo, Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaŋu-kare] v. discriminate; be biased against; be prejudiced against

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kinɨ] n. bitch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koɁrò] adj. big, of a bangle

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

[koopɨɁ] v. sprain

Dialect: var. koopu’, Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kore-kore] adv. with short quick steps

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kusuɁ] n. hay; straw

Dialect: syn. lwsi’, Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kuti] n. poker of wood or bamboo

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨʎĩ kɨloɁ] adj. shining; sparkling; glittering

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[liɁkiɁ-liɁko] adv. showy; flirty

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[locũ] n. bone marrow

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[loɲì] n. two days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lu] v. speak; talk; converse; articulate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lukó-lupè] v. interrupt; create confusion

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨ] v. plant

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨgeɁ] n. popliteal space; hollow of the knee

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[miʎa ri] n. sudden onset eye pain

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[murto] n. metal arrowhead

Dialect: var. morto, Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨbjaɁ] v. hurt by causing burns

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨgjo-mɨʎo] v. mix; blend; mingle

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨpjó] v. do something secretly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Dialect: ant. nami, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽko] n. lower section of the village

Dialect: ant. neñdiñ, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nikũ dapo] n. customary law

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨka] pron. your; second person singular genitive pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨmopa] pron. why

Dialect: var. nwmpa syn. nwtepa, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨtãpà] pron. how

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pakù] n. pigeon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[papù aʎò] n. egg white

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[parda] adj. straight; honest; linear; not bent

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁ] n. chicken; fowl

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[peɁkó] adj. smart, of a person; strong, of taste

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[puri] v. read; study

Dialect: or. Assamese, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋɨɨla] n. owl

Dialect: syn. tapi’ qwwla, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[reŋe] adj. tired

Dialect: var. reqw, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rohĩhe] adv. thrice; three times

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ru] v. sneak; plot; machinate; conspire

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[samã] n. pine needle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saŋ] n. cot; bed

Dialect: syn. xaq, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sijo] n. this night; tonight

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sĩ] v. feed (esp. liquid food)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sumu] adj. giddy; dizzy; vertiginous

Dialect: syn. jiimú, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨlɨ] n. Large Indian Civet (Viverra zibetha)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨpiɁ] n. pangolin

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tabu somĩ] n. a variety of legless lizard

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taɉǝr] n. a bamboo fish trap

Dialect: syn. taxuñ, Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tano-gorgo] n. snail

Dialect: var. tano-gogo, Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tooro] n. Rhino beetle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tur] v. be alive

Dialect: var. tor, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨbo larĩ] n. millipede

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jalã pombo] n. hairy caterpillar

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jau] n. a color pattern of mithun with overall black color with white in the lower portions of the limbs

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲaɁɲaɁ] adv. slow; sluggish

Dialect: syn. za’zo’, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲibu] n. Apatani shaman

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲoɁ] v. to abstain from doing some things during ritual prohibition

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ácì-ahè] n. ailment; suffering

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[óò] v. till (with spade); dig; plow

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[óòpaɁ] v. hoe off; dig out

Speaker: Tage Kanno