Apatani English

[abã] n. elder brother

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[abrǝ] pron. something; something that is unspecified or unknown

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. abvr

[akì kíinɨ] n. bitch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aláa] n. juice, broth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amĩ-aɉã] adj. docile; candid; frank

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apiɁ] v. break (by dropping)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arkó] v. latch; fasten; bolt; lock

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arɨɨ] n. horn (anatomical)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axóo] n. head; leader; principal

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ajú] n. traditional ballad usually sang by the males as competition or simple narration

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[baró] n. brother

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cuuki] v. stoop

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. cuukw

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[damĩda] n. a variety of Apatani traditional dance, accompanied by bwsí

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[damu] n. wooden digging stick used as an agricultural implement

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨho-luho] adj. offending

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎã] v. bless

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎego] n. threshold; entrance

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎohe] n. one type; one variety

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[geɁ] v. stick; adhere to; glue

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. age’

[gimbjo] n. a meat portion, containing the thoracic cage

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gõkoɁ] v. open mouth

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: ant. goñpiñ; goñpyañ

[guriɁ] v. get up; stand up

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bari’

[gɨmja] n. a variety of spring action trap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gòo] v. swell (as a wound); bloat; bulge

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pyañ

[haalo] n. August-September; ninth month of lunar year

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽdi] adj. thoughtful

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[huli] n. boil; pimple

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huuto] n. light

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨbjɨ] n. bamboo branch

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hɨɉã lopa] n. a stick presented to a child with developemntal delay by her maternal grandparent

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ita] n. brick

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[ĩɉó-mɨɉó] n. wage; earning

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉihiɁ rara] adj. silent; peaceful

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[ɉihĩ] n. rag; scrap of cloth; dirty linen

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[ɉiɉe] n. truth

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[ɉoɁko] v. open by cutting

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[kaxɨ̃-kamɨ̃] adv. look with confusion; unsatisfactory; disagreeable

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kaxè] v. look in anger

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kolã] n. pencil

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[koju tapjo] n. coccyx; tail bone

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kupjuɁ kusǝr] v. rinse, esp. a container like a pot

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kupyu’

[kɨbjoɁ] v. flash; sparkle

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨdi] n. soil

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[laɁgeɁ] n. anticubital space

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laatu] v. catch; seize; intercept

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lamuɁ-laju] adj. pinkish (color)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lãcu] n. goiter; hump

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lãxa] n. coop, as for poultry; shelter, as of a hunter in the tree

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[loɲì-lohĩ] n. some days

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[lumur] v. speak wrongly; say something by mistake

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lupa] v. remind; help someone remember

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨma] n. root

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[miɉí] n. orphan

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mijí atúu

[mɨbiɁ] v. spill; splash

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨceɁ] v. interfere; obstruct; impede

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨho] v. make a sign

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨró] v. enlarge; widen

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nago] n. ritual hut in the middle of a village

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nelɨɁ] v. send somebody in

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. neliñ

[nẽ] v. push, using the body; nudge

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽ] v. sniff; smell

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[no hokɨ] pron. from where

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨmpa] pron. why

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

[o sadǝr] n. bamboo funnel for filtering beer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pahe] v. make a dent by cutting

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[petiɁ] n. belt

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[pi] v. slice or saw

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[piɁ] v. bear; put up with

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨgo] n. matter; subject; affair

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. hago

[ŋarsi] v. chuckle; laugh quietly or inwardly

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[ŋɨra] n. variety of a migratory fish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋɨɲì] pron. we two; first person dual pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ríipĩ] v. close something by stitching or sewing

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sampú] n. a variety of white beads of chank shell

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[soli] n. a sacrificial share of meat comprising of hind leg

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[soj tarɨ] n. sweater

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[sɨbĩ] n. goat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨmǝr] n. silt; sand

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨɨ atúu] n. calf

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[talã] adj. brownish color (esp. of a cattle)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taleɁ] n. a variety of garlic

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. twle’

[tapĩ] n. ice

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twpiñ

[tapju] n. a species of bamboo

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tariɁ] n. body odor

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tarɉi] n. scorpion; centipede

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tẽbjaɁ] v. get burnt by touching something hot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨrɨ] n. forehead

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tùdaɁ] v. place or push something upright

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[une gɨkor] n. scar

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[ɨrɨɨ] n. horn

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. arww; swrww

[xei] n. cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨɁ] v. prod; pound

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[xú] v. aim

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[jahĩ] adj. rotten (esp. of wood)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jato pano] n. an aquatic insect

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲaɁɲĩ] n. fermented rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno