Apatani English

[adú] v. make noise

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[ageɁ] v. stick as with glue

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[agĩ] v. trouble; irk; niggle

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[aɉã] adj. young; immature

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[aɉĩ] n. friend; company; mate

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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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[akã] prep. bottom; beneath

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[alɨɁ] v. exchange; interchange; swap

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[apju] v. spead (a mat) on the floor

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[aruɁ] n. outer covering of bean or corn

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[bariɁ] v. get up; stand up syn. guri’

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Dialect: syn. guri’

[beɁce] v. crack; split; rapture

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[beŋna] n. brinjal (Solanam melongena)

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[biɉe biiɲiɁ] n. small sized bamboo

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

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Dialect: syn. bije yatań, subu zaazi

[bjajũ] n. tomato; potato

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Dialect: var. beyuñ

[cor] v. spray; squirt; sprinkle

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[daɲi áago] n. west

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Dialect: syn. haatw

[deʎã rɨcã] n. bell

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Dialect: syn. defañ rwci

[dĩ] v. pound with something

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[duɁ] v. throb; beat (as of heart)

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[dɨrã-sãxã] n. a variety of edible berries

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Dialect: syn. saanci

[dɨxuɁ-tãxuɁ] n. left over eatables

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[díĩ] v. curse

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[ẽtɨ patã] n. labor gang for paddy harvesting

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[goiɁ] adj. whole; entire

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[goobɨ-cibɨ] v. preserve; protect; safeguard

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[haaceɁ] n. difficult time; crisis; emergency

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Dialect: syn. haace’ swre

[heɁ] v. dig (esp. with a tool)

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[hiɁxɨɨ] v. wring; twist

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[hor] v. dry; harden (as of paddy in sun)

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[hore] num. one bundle (esp. of thread)

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[hubju] n. scum; froth

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[huuda] adj. bright

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[hágɨ] v. escape; run away; flee

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Dialect: var. hárgw

[ɉeɁ] v. soften; become tender on cooked

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[ɉoɉuru] n. a fruit bearing creeper (Silene sp.)

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[kapi] v. eat up; finish eating

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[kee] v. rub (like a tobacco in the hand)

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[kinɨ] n. bitch

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[koɁkɨ] prep. from

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

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[kɨteɁ] v. knock down by punching

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[laɁnɨ] n. thumb

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[laaxeɁ] v. keep something upside down

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[leɁ] v. lop off

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[lẽda] n. path

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[loɲãdà] n. two years hence

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[lɨciɁ-poɁdo] n. accident; mishap

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[mepĩ] n. a variety of ritual in which the shaman smears rice powder mixture on the walls

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

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[mo] v. move one’s face

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[mula] n. radish

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[mɨɉù] n. ways of doing; custom

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[mɨra] n. slave

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[mjodu] n. time; season; period

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Dialect: syn. myodu-myolo

[narĩ-kari alo] n. Wednesday

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[nikũ dapo] n. customary law

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[nɨɁjuɁ] v. prick; pierce

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[paakaɁ] n. plate

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Dialect: syn. paaku’

[poɁlã] n. grass

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[pɨɲú] n. brain

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[pjar] v. fold; braid

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[pjo] v. open (as eye)

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[ŋarka] v. smile

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[ridaɁ] v. throw at the target

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Dialect: ant. rixa’

[rĩbi] n. spider

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Dialect: var. riimi syn. wci riimi

[rutĩ] n. earring

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[rɨɁ] v. bind; strap

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[rɨɁtú] n. a part of marriage ceremony in which paddy a newly married couple harvest paddy from the bride’s family field

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[rɨgã] n. edge; border; boundary

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[rɨko] n. tortoise

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Dialect: var. rako syn. samiñ rwko

[ríipĩ] v. close something by stitching or sewing

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[sadi-sapa] n. plantation

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[sadǝr] n. conical shaped bamboo filter

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Dialect: syn. o sadvr

[sala burtaɁ] n. cobra; King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)

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Dialect: var. sala borta’

[saŋ] n. cot; bed

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[sẽ] v. wither; dry

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[sihɁ] n. spring (esp. where animals come to drink)

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[soku-soka] v. tease; make fun of; poke fun at; trifle with

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[taɁmĩ] n. Indian barberry (Mahonia aquifolium)

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[tabu ŋɨi] n. eel (Anguilliformes)

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[tamù] n. a deity

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[tatá] adj. color pattern of mithun bull, described as overall black with a white spots on either side

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[tẽ] v. keep in place; place something

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[tuŋĩ] n. stump of a felled tree

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[tɨrɨ huuʎiɁ] n. a variety of green grasshopper

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[urú] n. family

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[xaãcuɁ] n. can container with a lid (esp. to store rice)

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[xaŋá] v. kneel down

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[xẽ] v. cut

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[xɨka] v. count; innumerate

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[xɨŋɨ-xaŋa] adj. muddle

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[xɨro] n. large intestine

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[jahĩ] adj. rotten (esp. of wood)

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[jo ajaɁ] n. fleshy portion of meat

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Dialect: syn. ya’lañ

[jormɨɁ] n. dried chili pepper

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[ju] v. chant an ayú

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[álù] n. task

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[óòpaɁ] v. hoe off; dig out

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