Apatani English

[aarã] adj. deep

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Dialect: syn. uurañ

[aarí] n. saw

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Dialect: or. Hindi

[abu-akeɁ] n. manure; fertilizer

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[agoo imiɁ] n. hearth towards the front of the house

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[akì asiɁ] n. kennel; shelter for a dog

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[akì-paroɁ] n. domestic animals

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[ajóo] n. up; upper

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[beɁtũ] v. shrink; contract; become smaller

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[biti] n. craft; activity involving skills in cane and bamboo craft

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[buɁ] v. multiply; proliferate; procreate

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[bɨʎo] n. yesterday

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[bɨlɨ] adj. loose (as of a tooth or a post)

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[bɨsi] n. traditional ballad; song; lyrics

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[bátè] adj. thick (of mud or liquid)

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[dapo] n. penalty; prohibition; sanction

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[dapo pogjã] n. an altar erected during a community penalty or to announce such a penalty

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

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Dialect: syn. dituñ

[doopɨɁ] v. sleep together with head in same direction

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Dialect: ant. doosi’

[dɨru] adj. tasteless; unpleasant to eat

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Dialect: ant. dwpyò

[ʎaɁco] n. tiny metal bell

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Dialect: syn. za’co

[ʎíi] v. slither (as snakes do)

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[gorbã] n. shoulder

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[gɨmja] n. a variety of spring action trap

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[gjooɁ] n. noose trap

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[haaɉuɁ] adj. light; not heavy

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Dialect: ant. aì

[haʎã bjajũ] n. tomato

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heŋaɁ] v. be worried about something

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽdǝr] v. conscious; understand; figure out

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiɁka] v. frisk

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hua] v. fall into something

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hupa] pron. for whom

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[háa] v. smoke dry

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ii] letter name I the letter representing i in the Apatani alphabet

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[ikóo] n. underside; bottom

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[ĩbò] v. follow; go along with somebody

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[ɉã] v. be trustworthy, as the omen of chickeen liver or egg might be

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[ɉáaɉi] n. aeroplane

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[kahò] v. take note of; mark something

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[kiluɁ] n. a small compartment in the granary usually for storng millet or agricultural implements

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[koʎoɁ-koco] adj. bent; not round; irregular

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Dialect: syn. kofo’

[kone kone] n. ? one by one

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[kɨpaɁ ahì] n. banana

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Dialect: syn. kwpa’

[laɁpjo] n. palm

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[laɁpù] n. closed fisted hand

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[lai] n. torch

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Dialect: or. English (light)

[laŋe] num. hundred

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[li lilã] n. cicada (Cicadidae)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[luho] v. speak offensively

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[lulù-lugo] v. disturb by speaking

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Dialect: syn. lulù

[lɨsiɁ] n. hay; straw

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Dialect: syn. kusu’

[midĩ] n. nursery for paddy; seed bed

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[miɉiɁ lãcu] n. Adam’s apple

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[mohol] n. big house; bungalow

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[moiɁ] adj. turbid; muddy; murky

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[mula] n. radish

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[mɨmĩ-mɨhĩ] v. do something without a purpose

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[mɨtú] n. half burned firewood

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[mɨxeɁ] v. make somebody cry

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[nakú] n. uncle, esp. maternal (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. aku

[nãtĩ] v. close by pushing

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[o pɨro] n. lace bamboo used for filtering good quality liquor from fermented millet or rice

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[paduɁ] v. hop to express extremes of emotions

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[papo] adj. incomplete; not full

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[paroɁ sampja] n. fowl feeding tray

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[paju] n. glue usually of plant origin

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[pebeɁ] v. release something (esp. which was under tension)

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[peca sanɨ] n. tree of wild pear (Pyrus sp.)

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[pepó-pelò] adj. extravagant; lavish

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[petú] v. break something into two or more pieces

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Dialect: syn. pece

[pĩ] v. pinch; grasp; tweak; nip

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[põcuɁ] adj. narrow

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[pɨlo] n. moon; month

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pjoɁ] v. detach (a splinter from a wood

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[pjoɁsu] v. brush one’s teeth

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[pjàpaɁ] v. destroy and remove a structure

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[riɲo] n. rings of bamboo splits

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[sa ciɁri] n. a variety of antique sword

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[saiklo] v. bicycle

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[sampú] n. a variety of white beads of chank shell

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[sanɨ] n. tree

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[sanɨ tero] n. Sichuan peppercorn; prickly ash

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Dialect: var. sañtú tero

[sardĩ] v. take a short cut

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[sãtũ] n. generation

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[semo] n. a variety of wild cherry

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Dialect: var. sembo

[soh] v. play; joke; flirt

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[sorɉĩ] v. stretch straight; straighten out

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[suʎu] adj. empty (of feeling)

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

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[sɨsida] adv. now

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[sɨɲã] n. this year

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[tapjaɁ] v. untie

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[uurã] adj. deep

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Dialect: syn. aarañ ant. uuxa’

[ɨ̃co] int. expression of agreement

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[xẽtɨ pakù] n. ashy wood pigeon (Columba pulchricollis)

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[jaɁduɁ-jaɁɲuɁ] adj. tattered; ruined; decayed

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[jasã] n. firewood; wood

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[jorgã] n. ridge (esp. of mountains)

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[ɲoko taɁtì] n. wood louse

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[ájò jooʎã] n. late night

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