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[aarìda] n. in the future; in the coming years
Speaker: Tage Kanno
[abjo] adj. endearing
[adĩ] v. add; include; incorporate; admix
[amĩ] n. shade; shadow
[apiɁ] v. feed (esp. fowls)
[axoo] adj. entangled (hair)
[buuʎú] n. tadpole
[buutũ] n. a person who remains bachelor
[bɨʎoɁ] adj. nearby; near
[cãcã] adj. cold (to the touch); chilly; gelid
Speaker: Tage Yassing
[cíi] v. be extinct
[dãlò] v. beat something down; cause to fall by beating
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. dañte’ span>
[duɁ] v. offer something for sale; market
[durgu] n. wooden trough
[dɨɲo-mɨɲo] n. rehearsal
[dùukũ] n. meeting; gathering; assembly; congregation
[elì] n. paddy seed; paddy preserved for next season’s sowing
[ʎagja] adj. usual; normal; habitual; customary
[ʎiro toko] n. uvula
[gaɁ] v. grasp; clutch; grip; grab
[gaga] adj. quarrelsome
Speaker: Tage Numpi
[gaɉor] n. carrot
Speaker: Tage Numpi,Dialect: or. Assamese span>
[gasu] v. have verbal quarrel
[gijã jorli] n. cabbage leaf mustard seed
[gora] n. horse
[guɁpi] v. lie face down
[gɨneɁ-gɨse] v. lightly touch with any part of the body; flirt
[gɨɨrò] adj. big (of a basket)
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: ant. gwwzó span>
[haalo] n. August-September; ninth month of lunar year
[harceɁ] n. fold of the groin
[hẽpaɁ] v. ignore; pay no heed to
Speaker: Nani Anga
[hoopa] post. therefore; for
[iɁrũ] v. sleep in somebody else’s house
[ɉeɁɉeɁ] adj. soft due to cooking too much
[kacĩ] v. recognize; know
Speaker: Tage Yassing,Dialect: syn. kala’ span>
[karo] v. spy; peep
[keemɨɁ] v. crush by rubbing
[kena kuru] n. a variety of bird
[kootaɁ] n. buttock
[laɁciɁ] n. finger
[lalala] conj. then; and then
[luʎiɁ-lume] n. recalcitrant; defiant; wayward
[lɨdu] n. heel
[lɨma] n. root
[manɨ perũ] n. a variety of bean; French bean
[mataɁ] adj. flat
Speaker: Tage Yassing,Dialect: syn. me’ta’ span>
[medǝr nelo] n. place of worship (Lit. ‘house of purity’)
[miɁtĩ amu] v. eyebrow
[milò] n. husband
[mɨpĩ] v. close
Speaker: Tage Yassing,Dialect: syn. mwpyañ span>
[mɨŋu-mɨre] v. discriminate
[mɨsì] v. do something secretly
[neha] n. man; human beings
[paɁsǝr] v. kill by hanging
[paʎi] v. patch; patch on; stitch up; repair
[pakù sɨma] n. fine in the form of a middle-sized mithun for stealing or killing a cattle
[pamjo-taxo] n. injury; encumbrance
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. pamyo span>
[pamí] n. chicken louse
[paroɁ] n. chicken; fowl
[patu] v. cut something into two or more pieces
[patúu-papo] v. hack something into several pieces
[pila] n. a variety of liquid dish obtained by filtering ashes of particular plants
[pila sudu] n. bamboo container for storing pila
[pipaɁ] v. swat something away
[poɁdo] v. stumble over or fall down accidentally
[poɁpǝr] n. bamboo split used to make sounds to scare birds away, esp. from agricultural fields
[pɨdi] n. a variety of bird
Example: Photo by Koj Mama
[pɨi] n. solidified snot
[pɨɉe] n. June; seventh lunar month of the year
[pɨleɁ] n. feather
[pɨta atúu] n. chicks of birds
[pjoɁsu] v. brush one’s teeth
[ŋoja] pron. something else
[ŋurca] v. move up something heavy using lever
[riilaɁ] n. tendril
[rĩbi tasũ] n. spider web
[rõ] v. burn; scorch; set on fire
[rũku-ruʎa] n. half mad; maniacal
[sampo] n. log; timber; piece of wood
[sopĩ] n. lizard
[sɨ] v. claw; scratch
[sɨre] n. wild pig; boar
[sɨɨ hɨnɨ] n. cow
[taarò] adj. many; large numbers
Speaker: Tage Numpi,Dialect: syn. toorò ant. tazó span>
[taki] n. ginger
[tapi] n. a variety of cane
[tariɁ burtaɁ] n. a variety of snake
[tɨɨ] v. chop, as of cutting down a tree
[tú] v. kick
[túhɨ-túxeɁ] v. kick to and fro with the limb
[une cẽxo] n. crust over a wound
[utɨ] n. camel
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: or. Assamese span>
[ǝǝ] int. yes; okay; interjection to express a positive answer
[xaãcuɁ] n. can container with a lid (esp. to store rice)
[xɨ] v. count; innumerate
[jo badè] n. ceiling rack for storing meat
Example: Photo by Tage Kanno
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. xaci; bade span>
[ɲagó] n. snout
[ɲoxe] n. black panther (Panthera pardus)
[ápù] v. wrap (into a sphere)
[ĩka] pron. that