Apatani English

[abã] n. elder brother

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[adã] n. spear

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[adú] n. noise; sound

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. kúcì

[ahì] n. fruit

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɉuɁ] adj. weak; frail; feeble; sick; ailing

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ájùu

[aɉóo] n. fare; wage

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alì innánɨ] n. stilt; pair of pole equipped with footrest to enable a person to walk at a height from the ground

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alíi] n. descendant; progeny; successor

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amú] v. to tell a lie

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apáa] adj. young; immature

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arɉĩ] v. stretch (esp. one’s body)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arũ] v. be possessed (esp. by evil spirits)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[asoo] n. party; group; gang; supporter

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axáa tajú] adj. mature; elderly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bahũ] adv. vomiting tendency; retch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[baró] n. brother

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[biɉe biiɲiɁ] n. small sized bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjajũ] n. tomato; potato

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. beyuñ

[bátè] adj. thick (of mud or liquid)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cibjɨ] adj. smart; quick; agile

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byací

[cì] v. bite

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[còoʎa] v. limp

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dasǝr] adj. free; without burden; unencumbered

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. heñsvr

[dula] n. rope to tie dogs

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. akì dula

[eʎã] n. ear of grain

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[emo] n. paddy; unhusked rice

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. imo

[ga] v. scold; rebuke; reprimand;chide

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: la.wav?

[gɨɁ] v. lie down

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gja] v. dry (as of liquid)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[heʎa] v. have patience; have endurance

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hemjó] v. plan in advance; plan

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽɉǝr] v. save up; save for the future

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hirĩ] n. strips of fermented bamboo shoot

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hoopa] post. therefore; for

Speaker: Nani Anga

[horʎiɁ] v. look obliquely

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hár] v. run; drive (a vehicle)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ijuɁ] n. an ailment in which a person loses appetite, believed to be caused by somebody’s property, esp. ginger plants growing in somebody else’s garden

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉãda] n. flag

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[kahiɁ-kaso] v. look after; take care

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kapi] v. eat up; finish eating

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karsĩ] n. kerosene

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[kenda] n. black necked crane (Grus nigricollis)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. keená

[ko] prep. in; at

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koɁbu] n. traditional relationship usually the maternal uncle to whom a portion of the sacrificial animal is offered

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ko’bw

[koʎũ] n. primordial time

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kofuñ kolo

[kolò] n. the day before yesterday

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[korò] n. the morning before the last

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kut tarɨ] n. coat

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[kɨʎĩ kɨloɁ] adj. shining; sparkling; glittering

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[laɁke] v. cross or fold one’s arms

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lẽ] v. perish en masse, as do the wild bamboo after flowering

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[locũ] n. bone marrow

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lu] v. speak; talk; converse; articulate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ma] int. no; exclamation for negative response (esp. to a request or order)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miɁɉũ] adj. lethargic or inactive (of a person)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mõpaɁ] v. chase; drive away; persue

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨlaɁ-lulaɁ] adj. skilled; expert

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. miki

[mjokũ] n. ritual performed for the well-being of plants

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nar pɨcã] n. earthen pot from the water of which a newborn is bathed for the first time

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[naspati] n. pear

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nã] v. push; press

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽdĩ] n. upper section of the village

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. neñkó

[ni] v. prune

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨɁ] v. prick; stab

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pace] v. cut into two pieces

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pacá] v. levy fine

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pape] n. gap; intervening gap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁ jo] n. chicken (meat)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[patuɁ alɨɁ] v. put in the jail; imprison

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[piiʎa] n. ritual performed to propitiate pìfá úì

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[piruɁ jagɨ] n. a variety of cane basket

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pĩtú nanɨ] n. an element of loin loom

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[puhaɁ] n. crow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. poha’

[puɲũ] adj. normal; typical; usual

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨdì] n. a variety of bird; sparrow

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨsa] n. pine

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋeɁko] v. open

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. qe’piñ

[ŋɨka] pron. my; first person singular genitive pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[raʎúpjala] adj. absentminded; forgetful; distracted

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ri] v. throw

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ku, go

[rimjoɁ-riso] adj. striped; streaked; variegated

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ripó-rilo

[sapi] n. a variety of tree

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saró] n. firewood of bamboo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãtaɁ] n. wooden plank

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sulú] n. fence

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taki] n. ginger

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tare] n. thorn

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twre

[taruɁ] n. ant

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tarì] n. hail

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tasã-tajĩ] n. beads

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tãru] adj. bad in taste (of drinks)

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: ant. tañpyo

[tipi] n. thumb impression

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tooŋo puʎe] n. woolen cloth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨɁlo] v. to pull down

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨleɁ] n. a variety of garlic

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tale’

[uurã] adj. deep

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

[úì] n. spirit; god; devil

Speaker: Tage Kanno