Apatani English

[ací-baró] n. brothers; siblings

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. ací-búrù

[adĩ] adv. only; exclusively; solely

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[aʎiɁ asiɁ] n. cage for pig

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[asorit] adj. surprising; amazing; startling

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[axeɁ] n. kidney

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. arxe’

[bjaɲó] adj. small (esp. of flower)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ceeda] part. almost; close to

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[cikã] part. like; similar

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cuca] n. an element of a ritual altar

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cíi] v. be extinct

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[dalĩ] n. path made by a hunter; hunting track

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. dwliñ

[dĩtaɁ] n. scalp; top portion of head

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[doorò] adj. big (of an animal or vehicle)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. dorzó

[dɨdɨɁ tahĩ] n. poisonous mushroom

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨme] n. famine; food shortage

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. haaya-myoxa

[empjã sudu] n. bamboo container to store grains for poultry

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ʎẽ] v. measure with outstretched hands

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gjuɲã] n. ritual performed to appease a malevolent spirit

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. twgò

[haagja] n. entrance

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. áagyá

[haaɉuɁ] adj. light; not heavy

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. aì

[hemó] v. suspect; doubt; distrust

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽpjoɁ] v. guilt ridden; feel guilty; conscience stricken

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽtĩ] v. trust; faith; confidence; belief

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hĩxã] num. thirty

Speaker: Nani Anga

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

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huʎu] n. bamboo javelin

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hukɨ-makɨ] adj. impulsive; impetuous; reckless

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ita] n. brick

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉú] v. weigh; measure

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[kadi] v. stare; gaze; ogle

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kadǝr] v. recognize properly; look properly; identify

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[kaʎã́] adj. equal; same

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[kagɨ] v. learn (by seeing)

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[kanu] num. seven

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[kaŋu-kare] v. discriminate; be biased against; be prejudiced against

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[keɁba] v. put cloth on somebody

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

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[kolò lohe] n. two days back

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kõci] n. dawn

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[kɨdi swbi] n. serrow

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[laɁdu] n. a forearm span; a unit of measurement equivalent to the length of a forearm

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁrã] n. a hoop earing worn by priests on ceremonial occasions

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁrĩ] n. a hoop earring worn by women

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[lembo] n. road

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. leñbo

[luxá] v. retort; riposte; dare; challenge verbally

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[male baɁnɨ] n. porter; carrier

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mo] v. move one’s face

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[muku] n. tobacco

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. dui

[mɨgja] v. help someone on reciprocal basis

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨsì] v. do something secretly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨjaɁ] v. interfere; encroach

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nasɨ] n. dance or. Hindi

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. nasu

[nãpaɁ] v. push something away

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[neɁ] v. rub or scrape

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[nelɨɁ] v. send somebody in

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. neliñ

[nɨɁ] v. prick; stab

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[pakã] v. defer or postpone

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[pakù] n. pigeon

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[parsĩ] n. red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus)

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[patã áttò] n. a member of the labour gang in whose field it works on the day

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[patɨ ahi] n. tiger tooth

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[pẽbe] n. snow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. piñbe

[piiʎa úì] n. God of Luck

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[pĩbè] n. snow

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Dialect: var. peñbè

[poɁna pilá] n. porridge with fermented rice or millet

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[purtú pèerũ] n. a variety of bean

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Dialect: syn. amu pèeruñ; po’tuñ pèeruñ

[pɨdi mɨlũ] v. scare away birds from the paddy fields

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[pɨpĩ] n. bamboo mat for drying paddy or millet

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨtaɁ appú] n. flower of wild pear tree

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pjaɲó] adj. small, as a plot of land or a grain

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Dialect: ant. pyarò

[raabúu] n. hollow

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[riilaɁ] n. tendril

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[roɁpo] n. cock

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Dialect: ant. ro’nw

[saʎiɁ] adj. green

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[salũ] n. medium sized cucumber

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[sarpu sarse] n. an early ripening variety of millet

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[sãtǝr] adj. fully grown

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[sɨ] v. die

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[taɁce] n. crack; rupture; split

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[takũ] n. peach

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tappo] n. spinning knot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taú] n. descriptive term for mithun bull with color pattern of dark brown color with while in the lower parts of the limbs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[teɁhi] v. fall down

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[tolɨɁ] v. pour something in

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. toliñ

[tooŋo puʎe] n. woolen cloth

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[tusù] v. break a relationship

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[tɨpjaɁ tarɨ] n. a variety of cotton top

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[umjú] adj. pointed (as of a tip)

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[xãxã] adv. firmly; fervently; forcefully

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Dialect: syn. xañxañ dwrañ

[xomjú] adj. tapering

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

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[joʎã] n. dead of night

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[ju] v. chant an ayú

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[ɲaaɲo] n. honey bee

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[ɲahɨ] n. daughter-in-law (term of reference)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲor] v. step on something

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. zar

[ákó-ákó] pron. one by one; one after the other

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[árbì] n. portion of pork offered to wife’s eldest living sister

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ásù] adj. lazy; slothful; sluggish

Speaker: Tage Kanno