Apatani English

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

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[adĩ ácì] n. headache

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[aɉí sampjá] n. tray, usually of wood, used to move soil from one part of the paddy field to the other

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[akì kíinɨ] n. bitch

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[akó kõtɨɁ] adv. alone

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[amo-ahe] n. dust (esp. those sticking on the body after working rice)

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[arí-apɨ] n. neighbourhood; locality

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[axuɁ] v. regurgitate

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[axáa] adj. old; aged; elderly

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[axóo] n. head; leader; principal

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[barde] n. cane basket used for distilling rice/millet beer

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[bidĩ] n. ritual hunting of monkey prior to Myoko festival

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[burúu] n. mythical crocodile-like creature said to have inhabited the Ziro valley in the olden days

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[bɨsã tabú] n. a variety of snake; Green Ratsnake (Senticolis triaspis)

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Dialect: var. busañ tabú

[bɨɨ] v. give birth to

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Dialect: var. buu

[bɨjaɁ] adj. soft; spongy; pliable

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Dialect: syn. bwfe’ ant. alvr

[bíi] v. cascade; flow (as water)

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

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Dialect: var. dwliñ

[daɲi loʎã] n. mid-day; noon

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Dialect: syn. alo lwpa

[deɁlo] n. frame of a basket, etc.

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[diiʎã] n. areas of human activity between the forests and the villages

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

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[ʎijoɁ] n. portion of meat which is the extra fat covering of the stomach

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[goo] v. demarcate a boundary (esp. with fencing)

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[gõdu] n. arbitration; mediation; mediator

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[gɨri] n. pigsty

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

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. goi tabú

[hai] n. water

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. yasi

[hirĩ] n. strips of fermented bamboo shoot

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hokɨ] post. from

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[huɁhɨ-huɁxe] v. shake to and fro

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[hukɨ] pron. whose

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[hurbu] n. pipe, usually of bamboo or wood, to conduct water from one field to the other

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. hubur

[hɨɉã] n. new born

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[húu] v. whittle; scrape; shave

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[iŋè] n. a variety of taro

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[ĩgo] n. task; obligation to go

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[ɉoɉo roɁpo] n. a kind of a small bird

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[kadi] v. stare; gaze; ogle

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[karsĩ] n. kerosene

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[kasi-kahaɁ] adj. disagreeable; repulsive; unpleasant to see

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[kaxè] v. look in anger

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[kedu] n. an agricultural implement of short wooden digging stick used to make holes for planting paddy or millet

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[koɁrò] adj. big, of a bangle

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Dialect: ant. ko’zó

[kolò] n. the day before yesterday

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[laakur] v. take back

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[laxɨɁ] adj. cold

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Dialect: ant. gubu’

[lãhĩ] num. three hundred

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[lelaɁ] adj. fresh; new

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[leŋò] n. lawn; front yard; space in the village

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[loorɨɁlo] int. interjection to express hopelessness

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Dialect: syn. amw arwlò

[lulũ] v. frighten by speaking; scare; intimidate

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[lulù] v. disturb by speaking

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Dialect: syn. lulù-lugo

[lɨpjo] n. sole

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[malo] n. roof of a house

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[milo rɨɉì] n. a variety of fern used in the construction of altars (Diplazium esculentum)

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[mɨdu-mɨje] n. strands of hair extending down the forehead, as often kept by young women

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[mɨlãɉa] pron. all; everybody

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[mɨmĩ] v. win

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

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[pace] n. the other side

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[pajaɁ] v. attack; quarrel

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Dialect: syn. paya’-gaaya’

[paì] n. a variety of bird

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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[perũ jaanɨ] n. fermented soybean

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[pẽgu] v. warm

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[piiʎa] n. ritual performed to propitiate pìfá úì

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[pike] n. a spicy traditional dish

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[poxe] n. a variety of beer considered inferior in quality

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[pɨɉĩ] n. moth

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[pjaɁmĩ puʎe] n. a variety of traditional shawl

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[rade emo] n. a late ripening variety of paddy

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

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[rɨ] v. stagnate (as do the water)

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[rì alo] n. the day after tomorrow

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Dialect: syn. rìda

[sardĩ] v. take a short cut

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[sarkoɁ] v. rip open; tear open

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[sárce] v. tear something into two parts

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[taɁɲó] adj. small (of flat objects); thin; narrow

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tai belã] n. a variety of acacia tree usually used for hedges

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[takǝr] n. sputum

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Dialect: var. cukvr

[taleɁ] n. a variety of garlic

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Dialect: syn. twle’

[tamjo] n. a variety of tree

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[tarko] n. variety of plant used as antiseptic after burning it.

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[tarpĩ] n. maggots

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[tasĩ pɨha] n. a variety of bamboo basket used for carrying vegetables or edible aquatic insects

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[tero] n. chili

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[tõ] v. display

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[tõrò] adj. small (of group)

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Dialect: ant. tozó

[ulu-bjalu] adj. messy; unappetizing

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Dialect: syn. byurw-byarw

[uurò] adj. big (of hole) ant. uuzó

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[xɨ] num. six

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[xɨɁkoɁ] v. unbolt

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[jaa] v. rot; decay; decompose

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[ɲaɁɲaɁ] adv. slow; sluggish

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Dialect: syn. za’zo’

[ɲaʎã] n. ten years

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[ɲẽ] v. chew; masticate

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[ɲibja] adv. fast; quick

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[áakúr] v. return; come back

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[ĩsi] dem. that (demonstrative)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[úì subu] n. yak (Bos grunniens)

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