Apatani English

[abíi-tarɨ] n. dress; clothes; garments; attire

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎóo gõsò] n. mantis

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Dialect: var. afóo koñsò

[apjoɁ] v. dilute; make a liquid thinner or weaker

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[axoo] adj. entangled (hair)

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[aɲĩ ɲĩpǝr] n. nipple

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[aì] adj. heavy

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[aúu] n. son-in-law (term of address)

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. guri’

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

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[bo] v. cross; traverse

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[bosta] n. jute bag; gunny sack

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[bɨro] n. yesterday morning

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[caambjó] n. war; dispute; battle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. gyambo

[ciɁ] v. hurl (as a javelin)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[dĩ nanɨ] n. pillow; headrest

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. garu

[dɨbe] v. eat to heart’s content; eat so much one cannot eat any more

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[dɨbũ] n. greedy; gluttonous

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[dɨnɨ-barnɨ] n. wives of brothers (term of reference)

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[ẽtɨ pataɁ] n. wooden try on which to beat while harvesting paddy

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[garɨ] n. vehicle

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[gjũtã] n. negotiator; go between in a marriage

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[haapĩ tagjã] n. fog; mist

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. haapiñ

[haaru] n. mourning; grief

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[hiɁtĩ] v. bash against something

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hĩxã] num. thirty

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hoã] n. back (anatomy)

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. huañ

[hɨɨbo] n. bull

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[ĩ] v. go

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉarpĩ] v. hysteria; sickness caused by the spirit of a dead person

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[ɉuɉu] n. winnowing

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koɁrò] adj. big, of a bangle

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Dialect: ant. ko’zó

[kóo] v. move the hips, as when closing a door with the hands full or bumping against someone

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[lãke] n. a cane loop used for restraining cattle

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[marpu] n. corn silk

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[miɉí] n. orphan

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Dialect: syn. mijí atúu

[miju-mima] n. human beings

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[moiɁ] adj. turbid; muddy; murky

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[murũ] n. first month of the lunar year; January; name of the festival celebrated in January

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨɉo] n. reward for doing something; wage

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[mɨlaɁ-lulaɁ] adj. skilled; expert

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Dialect: syn. miki

[mɨlã] pron. all; everybody

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Dialect: syn. jimvr

[mɨme-mɨɉa] v. complete; finish

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[mɨmjaɁ] v. smudge; smear

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[mɨpjaɁ] v. undo something; untie

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nama] pron. your mother

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. nane

[no hopa] pron. for where

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[nɨ do] pron. when (past tense)

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[orbjoɁ] adj. long

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Dialect: var. obyo’ syn. ba’so, wbyo’

[paakuɁ] n. plate

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Dialect: syn. paaka’

[paʎò] n. patch; piece

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[pagi] n. debt; financial obligation; outstanding payment

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[papù] n. egg

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[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

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[paxuɁ itú] n. a dance usually performed before harvest

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[paju sudu] n. bamboo container for glue (payu)

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[paì] n. a variety of bird

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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[pẽɉi ciɁri] n. a variety of valued sword

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[pidú] n. pork intestine along with attached fat; such meat of sacrificed animals traditionally offered to the eldest living sister by the younger ones.

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Dialect: syn. he’dú

[por] v. cut as in longitudinally dividing a bamboo into two

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[potĩ] n. an element of loin loom

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[puʎiɁ] v. peel off; strip off

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[purò] adj. big (of spherical objects)

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Dialect: ant. puzó

[puɲó] adj. small (of spherical objects)

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Dialect: ant. purò

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

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Dialect: syn. tano pvrv

[pɨɁpja] v. scatter by sweeping

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[pɨló] n. lever

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[pɨɲe] n. chisel

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[pjuɁ] v. sell

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[pìi] v. dry

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[raɁ] v. bind; strap; fasten

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[rade emo] n. a late ripening variety of paddy

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[roɁnɨ] n. hen

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Dialect: ant. ro’po

[rubi] n. deaf

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[saɁhi] v. gulp; drink in a single gulp

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[saaxu] n. pine cone

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[sẽbiɁ] adj. half-withered

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[sisa] n. glass

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Dialect: or. Hindi

[sĩ] v. feed (esp. liquid food)

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[sĩbja] n. balcony in a traditional house

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Dialect: var. simbya

[sorɉĩ] adj. straight

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[sɨʎoɁ] n. river bank; beach

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[sɨlĩ] adj. wild (of a domestic animal esp. a mithun or a cow)

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[sɨɨ jo] n. beef

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[ta] v. listen; hear

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[taɁmĩ] n. Indian barberry (Mahonia aquifolium)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[taleɁ] n. a variety of garlic

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. twle’

[talũ] adj. an infertile woman

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

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[taŋu-aruɁ] n. honeycomb

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[tarò] v. listen secretly; eavesdrop

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[teɁ] v. cut (esp. bushes)

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[tolɨɁ] v. pour something in

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Dialect: ant. toliñ

[tooko] n. prop; support; post

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[tù] v. flood

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

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[xeɁ] v. winnow

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[ɲemɨɁ] v. break something into pieces by chewing

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[ágè] v. drain out (water from a field)

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[ápì] v. dry

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