Apatani English

[aaxaɁ] adj. shallow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. uuxa’ ant. aarañ

[ali lembo] n. paved road

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[alĩ] v. make something round; wind a quantity of yarn or thread into a ball (esp. by using a kind of spinning wheel)

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[amĩ-aɉã] adj. docile; candid; frank

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[amánɨ] pron. everything; each item

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[arí-apɨ] n. neighbourhood; locality

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[aríi] n. border; boundary

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[asã] n. north

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[ate] n. elder brother (term of address)

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[axáa tajú] adj. mature; elderly

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[baltiŋ] n. bucket

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[balu] n. garden

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[bardĩ] n. fate; destiny

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[buʎã] n. traditional village council of the Apatanis

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[bíiɁ] v. emit sound; echo

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[ceɁ] v. press or squeeze; sandwich; compress

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cortĩ] n. waterfall

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[daŋi] v. fall (from standing position); tumble

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[doodu] n. drop

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[dooʎaɁ] n. lightening

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[dutĩ] n. wooden block for sitting on

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[dùuko] n. place of residence; sitting place

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[ʎi] v. become

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[gaarò] adj. large, as a field

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Dialect: ant. gartú

[gaiɁ] v. sing

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[haaci] n. east

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Dialect: syn. dazi cago

[heɁ] v. knit

Speaker: Nani Anga

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽɉu] n. attitude; way of thinking

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[hẽɉũpa] adv. comfortable

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[hiɁka] v. frisk

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hogja] n. leopard

Speaker: Nani Anga

[iɁce] v. keep a night’s gap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉimi-ɉaama] adj. hazy; smoggy

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kabyo] v. yearn; wish to possess something or someone

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[kapanɨ] n. witness

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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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[kibo] n. male dog

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[ku] v. ask for; beg; seek; request; solicit

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[kɨra] n. a variety of tree; oak tree (Lithocarpus dealbata)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[kóò bo] n. nephew

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[laɁciɁ lɨpa] n. middle finger

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[laɁso] n. middle finger; a unit of measurement equivalent to the length of the outstretched thumb and middle finger

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Dialect: syn. la’ci’ lwpá

[lembjã-lerã] n. crossroad; an intersection of two or more roads

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[lupa] v. remind; help someone remember

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[lurɨɁ] v. converse; talk

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[lɨbã] n. baby

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[lɨɨ] v. lie down

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[maɁbo] n. son in law (term of reference)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[milo] n. male

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Dialect: ant. bwnw

[mo] v. move one’s face

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[mohol] n. big house; bungalow

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[mɨniɁ] v. Injure a bit while doing something

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[mɨpe] v. separate; detach; disconnect; segregate

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨpjã] v. close

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Dialect: syn. mwpiñ

[mɨxoɁ] v. do something differently

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[narũ] n. fencing (esp. of bamboo garden)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[nɨsĩ-nɨmã] n. flora; plants

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[paʎa-paca] adj. unsteady; staggering

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[paiɁ] v. get

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[paxɨɁ] v. cut to break or fracture bones in a piece of meat

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[Pinɨ] n. Creator

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[pĩkã] adv. nasalized speech or voice

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[põ] v. soak; marinate

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[pɨjo] n. Rufous-necked hornbill (Aceros nepalensis)

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[pjaɁ] v. undo; answer (to a question put as means of ayú)

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[pjú] v. beguile; entice; lure

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[párɨɨ] v. twist; turn around

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Dialect: syn. párww-paxe

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

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[saɁka] v. contemplate; consider; deliberate on

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[sah patɨ] n. tea leaf; tea grain

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[sardĩ] n. short-cut

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[sãti] v. push something tightly as when packing

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[sembo] n. a variety of wild cherry

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Dialect: var. semo

[sẽsɨɁ] adj. dry (of wood); thin (of a person)

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[sosiɁ-sosiɁ] adv. in a line; one after the other

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[sosma] n. goggle

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[sɨrã] n. post; pole; pillar

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[sɨxaɁ] v. scratch; scrape; abrade

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[takuɁ riilaɁ] n. cucumber tendril

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[takǝr] n. sputum

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. cukvr

[tapĩ] n. a species of bamboo

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[taruɁ] n. ant

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[tarɲe] n. pus

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Dialect: var. taze

[tasɨɁ] n. wart

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[taɲiɁ pamɨ] n. corn powder

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[teli] n. oil

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[tejaɁ] n. millet (Setaria italica)

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[tuubjú] n. edge

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[túhɨ-túxeɁ] v. kick to and fro with the limb

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[xaarũ] n. a benevolent god that protects a household

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[xẽ] v. toil

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Dialect: syn. apó xeñ

[jasi pari] n. common kingfisher

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[jo bade] n. ceiling rack for storing meat

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[jordĩ] n. upper portion of a hill

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Dialect: ant. yorko

[ɲaŋo] n. five years

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[ɲimɨ ĩgja] n. space between the hearth and the wall on the right side while entering the house

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[áade] v. come close; approach

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[ákojá] pron. something else

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[úì ácì] v. dive inside water

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