Apatani English

[aalú] n. potato or. Assamese

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byayuñ

[aʎóo kõsò] n. mantis

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aku] n. uncle (esp. maternal) (Term of address) syn. nakú

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arã] n. bottom (of a tree or a bamboo)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[armjũ] v. grow (as an offshoot)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. amyuñ

[attè] adj. thick (of a liquid)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[beɁɉi] n. injection

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[bɨdí] adj. trick; tactic; strategy

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[bɨso-kaco] n. forbidden; proscribed; prohibited

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bátè] adj. thick (of mud or liquid)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bíiɁ] v. emit sound; echo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[caãxá-diixá] adj. barren; unproductive

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ciruɁ] n. pocket; pouch

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. cíkù

[dar] v. break (as a stick); crack; snap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[diiha] n. clay soil

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[do] v. be; exist; lie

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. zima

[doodu] n. drop

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ʎãpĩ-cãtũ] n. protective deity in the household

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎiɁkũ-ʎiri] adj. wrinkled; crease; pucker; crinkle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎoo] v. tease out the outer layer of a bamboo as a rope

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎóo] v. collect, esp. firewood

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gaambɨ] n. border; brim; boundary

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gora] n. horse

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[gju-gjuro] n. trachea

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haasǝr] n. the internodal part of a bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[har] v. cut (esp. meat); dismember

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[heŋaɁ] v. be worried about something

Speaker: Nani Anga

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

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hoó] adj. spacious; roomy; capacious

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huã] n. back (anatomy)

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. hoañ

[huuto] n. light

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ipaɁ] n. excreta

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ita] n. brick

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[kakĩ-tajĩ] adv. showy

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kamɨ] n. work; task; job; occupation

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[kapako he] adv. everywhere

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[kedu] n. an agricultural implement of short wooden digging stick used to make holes for planting paddy or millet

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. keená

[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

[kooló] n. iliac crest

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kǝ] int. okay; yes; affirmative interjection

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨrã] adj. hardworking; often

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[lai] n. torch

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English (light)

[lodɨ] adj. short, of day

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lulù-lugo] v. disturb by speaking

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. lulù

[lupjuɁ-lusuɁ] v. spread false and damaging statements about someone; defame; slander;

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. lupyu’

[lɨdì] n. base; bottom; way; footprint

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨgju] n. claw

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨpĩ] n. upper portion of the foot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mataɁ] adj. flat

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. me’ta’

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[miɉiɁ-migũ] n. traditional knowledge

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨʎo] n. flame

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[narbi] v. borrow for somebody

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[narĩ-kari alo] n. Wednesday

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[neli] adj. fragrant; appetizing smell

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nelii mjokó] n. world of the dead

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. nelii

[nu] v. collect; accumulate; assemble; stockpile

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nuu] v. knead something (as dough) or as in washing cloth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paakaɁ] n. plate

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. paaku’

[papù paxu] n. egg shell

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁhe] n. measure worth of a hen or paddy in a paro’ yagw; three persons which was the number of laborers hired with a hen or paro’ yagw full of paddy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[parì-pagjò] adj. mosaic like appearance

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pẽbe] n. snow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. piñbe

[pɨlo] n. moon; month

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨro] n. basket of splitted bamboo used for storage

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨtĩ ŋɨɨla] n. owl

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tapi’ qwwla; qwwla

[pɨɲú] n. brain

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjaɁmĩ] adj. orange color

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjo] v. catch by pinching with a pincer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pju] v. move to and fro (esp. a post)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[raʎúpjala] adj. absentminded; forgetful; distracted

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[roŋe kamjã] adv. always; every time

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rugu] v. take care of security; guard

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sa] v. expel, as when delivering babies or defecating

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sarma puɉũ] n. a mound of refuse mainly comprising of millet stalk and other weeds in a millet garden

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãgo tape] n. a kind of bead

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãxó] n. smoke-dried meat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[subu tuɁteɁ] n. a variety of wild strawberry

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨcã] n. earth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tadoɁ tasã] n. a variety of yellow beads

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tado’

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tapã-kara alo] n. Tuesday

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tarpĩ] n. maggots

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɲiɁ aruɁ] n. corn ear

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tooro] n. Rhino beetle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tuɁteɁ] n. forehead of a cattle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨpjaɁ tarɨ] n. a variety of cotton top

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xẽŋu] v. warm something

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xugjuɁ] n. funnel shaped cane or bamboo distiller

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xú] v. measure

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[jaabũ] adj. dull (of a person)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jalã pɨro] n. a small egg container of bamboo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jasi] n. water

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jo sampja] n. wooden tray used for preparing cooked meat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲa] v. whittle; pare; shave; trim

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. zar

[áamì atúu] n. kitten

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno