Apatani English

[aʎã] num. ten

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[agĩ] v. trouble; irk; niggle

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[aɉo] adj. gentle; tender

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[aɉí] n. farm; wet agricultural field

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apaɁ] v. to give up; to let go

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. opa’

[apĩ] v. warm (hand)

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[atúu] adj. small; tiny; little; miniature ant. káhè

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[axuɁ] v. regurgitate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[beɁce] v. crack; split; rapture

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bisǝr abíi] n. Black and white Apatani traditional skirt

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bĩpu] adj. round; spherical; plump; rotund

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[bɨlĩ kormo] n. a variety of fruit

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[báxè] adj. brusque; impolite; rude; ill-mannered

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ciruɁ] n. pocket; pouch

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. cíkù

[daareɁ reɁke] n. lower rack over the fireplace

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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

[dahɨ-daaxe] v. go here and there

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dasǝr] adj. free; without burden; unencumbered

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. heñsvr

[domĩ] adj. cloudy; rainy

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. doqe’

[dɨpjoɁ] v. eat something to add taste to a meal

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨraada] adv. next year

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[dùukũ] n. meeting; gathering; assembly; congregation

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[ganda-nẽcã] n. landed properties

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gitĩ] v. close (a hinged door)

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: ant. giko’

[goɲó] adj. small (of a mouth); low voice

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gorò

[gõpĩ] v. close mouth

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. goñko’ syn. goñpyañ

[harɨ] v. twist; turn

Speaker: Nani Anga

[henci] n. a variety of edible berry

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽbjo] v. crave; desire; yearn; pine for

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽɉũpa] adv. comfortable

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[hẽpjoɁ] v. guilt ridden; feel guilty; conscience stricken

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hime] n. child; youngster

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hĩ] v. pinch

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ho] n. and

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[hulaɁ] n. aerial yam (Dioscorea bulbifera)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hù] v. prick; stab

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ipaɁ] n. excreta

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉar] num. thousand

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[ɉigɉiro] n. kind of a traditional shawl

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉooɉo] adj. refreshing; fresh

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[ɉopjã] v. close something by placing something in the opening ant. joko’

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ke] v. write

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[kooʎa] v. limp

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[koopuɁ] v. sprain

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Dialect: var. kopw’

[kɨdi swbi] n. serrow

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[kɨɉǝr] v. brandish; wield; flaunt

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[kɨrã] adj. hardworking; often

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[kɨri harnɨ] n. businessman; broker; agent; middleman

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. kwri du’nw

[laɁdu midĩ] n. elbow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. la’du mwriñ

[laɁpĩ] n. back of the hand

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[leɁta] v. spread, as wing

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Dialect: syn. le’tvr

[lomè] n. an element of loin loom

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[lɨhĩ] n. toe nail

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[lɨsiɁ] n. hay; straw

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. kusu’

[medǝr] n. purification; purification ritual

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mepa] v. search out; find out

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[migũ] n. a variety of narrated oral literature

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨbjú] v. offend (by doing something)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨdǝr] v. rectify; do something correctly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨgó] n. hearth; fireplace

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨlo kopo] n. hawk

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨmĩ] v. win

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨsiɁ] v. take one’s turn in doing something

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨtù] v. do something for the first time

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[paɁca] v. toss up

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. pa’lo

[padu aʎí] n. seasonal wind usually in February

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pakù sɨma] n. fine in the form of a middle-sized mithun for stealing or killing a cattle

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[pamɨɁ] v. cut or chop into small pieces

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[papù aʎò] n. egg white

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[par] v. crawl under something; creep; wriggle

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[paroɁ papù] n. chicken egg

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[patu] v. cut something into two or more pieces

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[pemiɁ] v. put off (light)

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[pẽci aɉĩ] n. a variety of traditional friend

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[pipo] v. cut accidentally with something sharp

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[pijã] n. Indian mole rat; Bandicoot rat (Bandicota bengalensis

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pũdeɁ] v. bulge; swell

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[pɨcó] v. make offering to God before food or drink in the form a morsel of rice or a drop of drink

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨɨlɨɁ] v. replenish (esp. liquor)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋunu] pron. we; first person plural pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[raabúu] n. hollow

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[raru hamã] n. a variety of wild vegetable

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[rúu] v. shed (as trees do of leaves)

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[sado] n. boyfriend; male lover

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. miya

[sardĩ] v. take a short cut

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[sarpu sarse] n. an early ripening variety of millet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sorɉĩ] adj. straight

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[soj tarɨ] n. sweater

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[sɨbĩ] n. goat

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[tase] n. sago palm; tree fern (Cyathea gigantea)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[temaɁ] v. touch

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Dialect: etym. teñ + mwma’ syn. mwma’

[tii] v. pour

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Dialect: syn. to

[tɨnĩ] n. variety of a plant; wild sesame (Perilla frutescens)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. taniñ

[uskul] n. school

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English syn. wskul

[xelɨɁ] v. force someone to do something

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[xɨɉã-xɨro] n. bowels

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[jaɁpu-jaɁlã] n. a variety of Muruñ festival considered to be of higher status

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jarì] n. traditional loincloth worn by males

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jatɨɁ] n. umbrella of bamboo and leaves covering the head and the back

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ácì-ahè] n. ailment; suffering

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[áɉù] n. appearance; image

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. kájù