Apatani English

[aʎã pɨʎi] num. forty

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[agjú] n. string; cord

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. aháa

[aɉĩ] n. friend; company; mate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aroɁ paco] int. expression of happiness; thank you

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arè] adj. loose; not fixed tightly or firmly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[asiɁ] n. nest; lair; den

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[asuɁ-asaɁ] n. disgrace; shame

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[beeɲì] n. term of address for two audience; term of reference for two persons

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[belũku] pron. friends; audience (term of address)

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[biɉe arɨ] n. bundle of bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[boʎo] adj. thin (of a flat object) ant. byañkvr

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. byañkvr

[busuɁ] v. get loose; loosen; slacken

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨɉǝr] n. market; bazaar

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[bíiɁ] v. emit sound; echo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[caãcú] n. cooking tripod

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cuuxa] n. small bamboo container over the fireplace

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[deɁlo] n. frame of a basket, etc.

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ditũ-potũ] n. ceremony; social event; occasion

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dituñ

[doolã] adj. brownish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dui] n. tobacco

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[eɁdaɁ] v. shoot at target

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. e’xa’

[ʎaɁ] v. lick

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎego] n. threshold; entrance

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gɨɨɲó] adj. small (of a basket)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gwwrò

[gè] v. mark; write

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ke, page

[haace] adj. sad; heart-breaking

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haaci] n. east

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dazi cago

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

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽsǝr] adj. not having any burden or impediment

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hime] n. child; youngster

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hirã] n. molar tooth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hoɁgjo-hoɁʎo] n. mixed up; mingle; intermingle; amalgamate

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ho’yo-ho’ci

[hoi] v. be; happen

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: or. Assamese

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. hurbu

[huli] n. boil; pimple

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɉã lɨhaɁ] n. small cane basket used as the container of food contributed during birth of a newborn by the mother’s mother

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ɉar] v. fly; soar; glide

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉeɁɉeɁ] adj. soft due to cooking too much

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉimǝr] pron. all; whole

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mwlañ

[ɉolo] v. lift or carry down ant. joca

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kebaɁ-kela] v. hug or embrace in an intimate way; hug in a playful way

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[keemɨɁ] v. rub into powder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kɨle pemu] n. a variety of flowering plant that grows on the banks of the river

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kwle peñbu

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[laɁcã] n. ring

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lãgja] adj. (dog) with a white neck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lebu] n. agate bead

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

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[lɨpjo] n. sole

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[lɨɨrɨ] n. edge; brim

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. cirw

[mikì] adj. skilled; expert

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[misĩ] n. machine

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[murto] n. metal arrowhead

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. morto

[mɨha-mɨxa] v. annoy; pester

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨmeɁ] v. initiate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mjodu] n. time; season; period

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. myodu-myolo

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nãlò] v. push something down

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. nalò

[nãtĩ] v. close by pushing

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nekã aʎeɁ] n. door of the toilet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nitĩ] n. proverb

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Dialect: syn. nitiñ-hormiñ

[parmɨɁ] v. grind in powder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pasu] v. fight; quarrel

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paɲiɁ] n. small broken pieces of rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pĩta] n. rounded liquid container made from the hard hollowed and dried skin of gourd

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[poɁdo] n. accident

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[poɁɉuɁ] v. crouch; cower

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[puri] v. read; study

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[pǝrǝ] n. traditional spinning wheel used to wind yarn into balls

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tano pvrv

[pɨgja gjapúu] n. wreathed hornbill (Aceros undulatus)

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[pɨleɁ] n. feather

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[pɨmɨ] n. June; sixth lunar month of the year

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[pɨse] n. a variety of bird; Dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨɲu] n. spoon

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[pɨɲú] n. brain

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[rìda] n. he day after tomorrow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. rì alo

[saɁka-saɁka] v. hesitate; be uncertain; be of two minds

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sadi] n. plantation (esp. of pine); pine estate

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. sañsuñ; salw

[siiɲiɁ] n. small-sized larvae of dragonfly

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tasiñ siizi’

[sɨbi bidɨ] n. a variety of monkey

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨtɨ bjako] n. yellow berried nightshade (Solanum xanthocarpum)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɁmo] adj. strong; brawny; powerful

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taɁrò] adj. large (of flat objects); wide; broad

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: ant. ta’zó

[tala] n. lock

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[tasi] n. wall

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. tarsi

[taxɨ] n. squirrel

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[taja rara] adj. quite; deserted

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[telɨɁ] v. push something in by finger

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. teliñ etym. teñ + alw’

[tulí] v. copy; replicate; click (a photo with a camera)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[tɨmo] v. suspend; postpone

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[uugũ] n. entrance of a hole

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[xaŋá] v. kneel down

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[xuu] adj. old

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[xũta] n. timber; wooden post

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[jaabũ] adj. dull (of a person)

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[jaciɁ] v. close (a sliding door)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jaɉuɁ pɨxo] n. a variety of dragonfly

Example: Photo by Gyati Habung

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jalu] n. dispute; conflict; controversy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ásù] adj. lazy; slothful; sluggish

Speaker: Tage Kanno