Apatani English

[ahu-apo] n. body; torso

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ahu

[amánɨ] pron. everything; each item

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amí] n. elder sister (term of reference)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arpɨ] n. bamboo crossbeam of a fence

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bardĩ] n. fate; destiny

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[belũku] pron. friends; audience (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bipĩ] n. mat of animal skin

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[birã] n. stump (esp. of bamboo)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bĩpa] n. rope of bamboo skin

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[caaŋeɁ-caaŋeɁ] adj. intense; stinging

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[daɁreɁke] n. lower rack over the fireplace

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. daare’ re’ke

[daaraɁ] adj. stiff (as of a cliff)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dacã] n. iron; metal

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daɲi agjã] n. altar for propitiating Dazi (the Sun God)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[diiʎã pákù] n. Mountain Imperial Pigeon (Ducula badia)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[duɁca] adv. get excited; fired up

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨbũ] n. greedy; gluttonous

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨli-dɨlo] adj. grandeur (of scenery); beautiful (of landscape)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨru] adj. tasteless; unpleasant to eat

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. dwpyò

[goobɨ-cibɨ] v. preserve; protect; safeguard

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gɨ] v. wear clothing; pregnant; bear (fruit or leaves, of a tree)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gjoɁ] v. call; hail

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gjoɁ] v. prepare cane rope; smoothen cane rope

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haatĩ] n. node (as of bamboo)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hadɨ] n. anger

Speaker: Nani Anga

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pidú

[ice] adj. few; some; scant; meagre

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. icu

[ipoɁ] n. yeast; yeast cake used to ferment grains while preparing beer

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ita] n. brick

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[ĩgjaɁ] v. astray; off course; go the wrong way

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉeɁmeɁ] adj. flat; deflatted

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉi] adj. black

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉiɉi ɉixo] adj. dark blue

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kalɨ-kaha] v. estimate; appear

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kapako he] adv. everywhere

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaxè] v. look in anger

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kobĩ] n. a variety of oak tree

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. korbiñ

[kootú] v. stand in a stooping posture

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koju tapjo] n. coccyx; tail bone

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨɉǝr] v. brandish; wield; flaunt

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨra] n. a variety of tree; oak tree (Lithocarpus dealbata)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kúcì] adj. near

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁcã] n. ring

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lusi-luhaɁ] adj. irritating, exasperating or irksome (to talk to)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨsiɁ] n. hay; straw

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. kusu’

[marbolu] n. marble

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[mẽdɨ] n. buffalo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mipja] n. an early ripening variety of rice

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨcĩ] v. know how to do

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨju] n. ash

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nala] n. drain

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese syn. nala paka’

[nasu] n. dance

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Hindi var. nasw

[nãbo] v. push something across

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽsu] v. jostle; scramble

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nunu] pron. second person plural pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nunuko] pron. at your (place); second person plural pronoun, possessive case

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨmĩ] n. placenta

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paɁsǝr] v. kill by hanging

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pagi jaru] n. Common hoopoe (Upupa epops)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pake] v. cross; intersect; crisscross

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁ papúu] n. white chicken

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁ roɁpo] n. cock; rooster

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pixɨ] n. spindle used for spinning thread from cotton

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. pixu syn. tapo

[poʎã] n. plateau; a plain area at a height

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pota] n. paper

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨʎe] num. four

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: etym. pwfi + he

[pɨlo kobjã] n. a variety of bangle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨtĩ] n. an open space

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjar] v. fold; braid

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pìtaɁ] v. slap; spank; hit; strike

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋɨra] n. variety of a migratory fish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rahe] adv. serious; solemn; earnest; profound

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[riilaɁ] n. ray (of sun); beam

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[riɲo] n. rings of bamboo splits

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨko] n. tortoise

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. rako syn. samiñ rwko

[se] v. pull

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨʎĩ daʎi] n. this afternoon; towards this evening

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨre tɨxe] n. tick

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. swre taxe

[sɨɨ hɨbo] n. ox

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tǝǝ] letter name t the letter representing t in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taʎiɁ] n. bruise; contusion

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tagjá] n. wood wasp

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[talo pɨɲu] n. spoon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tapi] n. a variety of cane

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tasĩ pɨha] n. a variety of bamboo basket used for carrying vegetables or edible aquatic insects

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tãxuɁ] n. leftover drinks

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tẽ] v. touch (esp. with finger)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tooŋo] n. wool

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tõkĩ] v. display

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨmo] v. suspend; postpone

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xẽpi] v. dry by heating

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xugjuɁ] n. funnel shaped cane or bamboo distiller

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨɁkoɁ] v. unbolt

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jalã] n. stone

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jamjó] n. floor of split bamboo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[japĩ ubúu] n. nostril

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲaanɨ] n. general term for maternal uncles

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲaŋa] v. put one’s head in

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲiɁxã] num. twenty

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲime] n. general term for people living in far north

Speaker: Tage Kanno