Apatani English

[abuɁ] v. coddled; pampered

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

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[adáa] n. a person who has always had only one wife

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[adú] n. noise; sound

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Dialect: ant. kúcì

[agáa] adv. quickly; rapidly; swiftly; immediately

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[alo sudu] n. small bamboo salt container carried for feeding mithuns

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[amo-ahe] n. dust (esp. those sticking on the body after working rice)

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[argò] n. vein, artery, nerve, tendon var. arrò

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

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[batĩ] n. hedge; cattle barricade designed for humans to climb over it

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[beʎe] v. chatter; babble

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[buudu-buugjá] n. household articles

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[bɨlĩ kormo] n. a variety of fruit

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[cãtɨ] n. earth

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[culu] n. a variety of children’s game

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

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[dù] v. dig; excavate

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[ʎaɁka] v. taste (by licking)

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[ʎihe] post. till; until

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[gaɁtú] v. catch; hold

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[gɨɨɲó] adj. small (of a basket)

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Dialect: ant. gwwrò

[haalo] n. August-September; ninth month of lunar year

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[haaja] adj. hungry; famished; starving

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[harã pijo] n. a variety of children’s traditional game

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[heŋa-hẽxa] adj. troublesome; worrisome; bagging; distressing

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[hẽpjo] adj. happy, delighted

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[hẽtú] v. miss someone; pine for; yearn for; long for

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[hiɁsu-hoɁsu] adj. nonplussed; disconcerted; stumped; at a loss

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[hime] n. child; youngster

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[hupa] pron. for whom

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[háakò] n. entrance, entry, door

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[iʎĩ linɨ̃] n. rectal prolapse

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[ɉaãtu] adj. fat; plump; chubby

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

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[ɉeɁ] v. soften; become tender on cooked

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[kakĩ-tajĩ] adv. showy

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[ke] v. write

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[koogá] v. spread one’s legs

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Dialect: syn. pagá ant. kooju’

[kɨlĩ] n. back; rear

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[laɁhɨ] n. archer’s wristband traditionally of human hair worn to protect the hand from injury by bow string

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[lẽ] v. filter; sieve; sift

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[loʎã] n. ten days

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[lorɨɁ] n. joint

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Dialect: syn. lwrw lorw’

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

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[lukã] v. speak for a long time

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[lɨri pɨsa] n. a variety of pine tree; Himalayan hemlock (Tsuga dumosa)

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Dialect: var. nwri pwsa

[magù] v. bellow as an expression of distress

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[miʎa bariɁ] n. whirlwind

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Dialect: syn. ro bari’

[miɉuɁ] adj. cowardly; timid

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Dialect: syn. miju’ mija

[mɨbiɁ] v. spill; splash

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[mɨniɁ] v. Injure a bit while doing something

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[mɨsì] v. do something secretly

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[mɨxoɁ] v. peel or scrap, of a wound scab or a bark of a tree

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[mɨɲaɁ] v. smoothen; polish

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[ni] v. prune

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[nɨmi] pron. you (accusative); second person singular accusative pronoun

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[nɨɲi] pron. you two; second person dual pronoun

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[née] v. wrestle

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[oha] int. interjection to express surprise

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[padĩ] n. erosion control embankment usually of bamboo and wood along the banks of the streams

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[papaɁ] v. cut off or chop off

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[paroɁ jo] n. chicken (meat)

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[pató hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Clerodendrum colebrookianum)

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[paì] n. a variety of bird

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[peɁ] v. lay a trap; entrap; ensnare

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[peca] n. a variety of wild apple

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[pẽko] n. intermediate position; middle

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Dialect: syn. puñko

[piɁɲi xaŋe] num. eighty

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[pohiɁ] v. caress; pet; fondle; stroke

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Dialect: syn. pohi’-poso etym. po (hug) + hi’ (frisk)

[pɨdi pɨʎiɁ] n. watch hut in the paddy fields

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Dialect: syn. pwdi pwzi’

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

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Dialect: ant. pyarò

[rasó] v. position lengthwise

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Dialect: ant. rapw

[ratĩ] v. answer appropriately; silence a query

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[riɲo gjadu] n. rings of bamboo splits that are hoisted with poles in the tombs of priests

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[rĩbi] n. spider

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Dialect: var. riimi syn. wci riimi

[rɨɁ] v. cut into pieces with sawing or slicing movement

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[sãtaɁ] n. wooden plank

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[sor] v. stretch; sprawl; lounge

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[suɁ] v. ladle; scoop

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[subu sɨbo] n. mithun bull

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[subu sɨxa] n. altar on which the mithun is sacrificed during Subu or Muruñ festivals

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[taɁmopa] adv. strongly; bravely

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[tarú] n. mosquito

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[taɲiɁ pamɨ] n. corn powder

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[tãpjo] adj. tasty (of drinks)

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Dialect: ant. tañru

[teɁhi] v. fall down

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[tero jorsĩ] n. dry chili

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[tõ] v. offer; give

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[tutu popo] adj. impulsive; impetuous; reckless

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[tũ] v. imprison; confine; hold captive

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[tɨɨló] v. cut down (a tree)

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[ɨɨ] letter name w ɯɯ the letter representing ɯ in the Apatani alphabet

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[xirki] n. window

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[xɨce] v. divide (by counting)

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Dialect: etym. xw (count) + tace (divide)

[xɨɨnɨ] n. navel

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[jali] n. fox

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[jaxo] n. stick

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[jorgã] n. ridge (esp. of mountains)

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

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[úì ácì] v. dive inside water

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