Apatani English

[ací] n. elder brother’s wife (term of address)

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[aʎee] v. shiver; tremble; shudder

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[agoo] adj. external; exterior

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Dialect: ant. ura

[aɉĩ arã] n. bosom friend; confidante; alter ego

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[akì] n. dog

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[akì kíicú] n. puppy

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[alóo xuu] n. inherited property (esp. house plot)

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[amɨ arɨlò] int. interjection to express hopelessness syn. lorw’lo

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[amú] v. to tell a lie

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[armjã] n. name

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Dialect: var. amyañ

[beeɲì] n. term of address for two audience; term of reference for two persons

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

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[bijã] n. girdle (esp. of female used to hold the skirt)

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[bukoʎeɁbe] n. larva of water beetle syn. fe’be

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. fe’be

[bɨdí] adj. trick; tactic; strategy

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[bɨʎeɁ] adj. soft; spongy; pliable

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bwya’ ant. alvr

[caɲó] adj. small (of pot)

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. cáarò

[dãxɨ] v. beat to death; kill by beating

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨbũ] n. greedy; gluttonous

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

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[ereɁ] n. belly; stomach

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: xañcu.wav

[gõcã] n. labial commissure

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gõpɨ] n. chin

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[guriɁ] v. get up; stand up

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bari’

[gjapja-gjasa] v. spread by throwing

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[ha] v. come; arrive; enter

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. áa

[haago] adj. vain; haughty; vainglorious

Speaker: Nani Anga

[haatĩ] adj. significant; important; notable; remarkable

Speaker: Nani Anga

[haʎã gijã] n. cabbage

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽɉe] v. trust; faith; confidence; belief

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽpũ-hẽka] v. be confused

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

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hirĩ] n. strips of fermented bamboo shoot

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huã ácì] n. backache; back pain

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨbaɁ] adj. next; following

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɉã apĩ] n. food contributed when a newborn baby is born

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨrɨ] n. a traditional dance accompanied by ballad of same name, usually performed by the males

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨsã] n. grass; fodder

Speaker: Nani Anga

[imi nɨɁteɁ] v. catnap; doze

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[iɲa] int. interjection to express repugnance

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ija

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉoo] v. pay as wage

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[ɉáa] v. soar or fly without flapping the wings (as a hawk)

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[kadǝr] v. recognize properly; look properly; identify

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[kahiɁ-kaso] v. look after; take care

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[katu] v. kick (as a cow does)

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[kenna] n. a person who castrates pigs

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kwmvr

[kõci] n. dawn

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[kõtɨ] part. only

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[kɨri pamjo] n. business management

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[la] conj. and

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[laɁta] v. open the hand; unclench the fist

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[lake] v. to cross legs

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[lãku] adj. tilted, esp. the head

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Dialect: etym. láañ (from láaqú) + kù

[li lilã] n. cicada (Cicadidae)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[migũ] n. a variety of narrated oral literature

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mii] pron. others; not own; outsider

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Dialect: ant. áttò

[murpu] n. bonfire

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ohò] n. sharp bamboo stick put on the ground to prevent intrusion

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[pano] v. sting

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[pape] n. gap; intervening gap

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[poɁtũ pèerũ] n. a variety of bean

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Dialect: syn. amú pèeruñ

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

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[pombo laso] n. a variety of insect with long limbs

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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

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Dialect: syn. pwdi pwzi’

[pɨleɁ] n. feather

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[pɨɨ] v. collect with palms

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[pɨɲú] n. brain

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[pjàpu] v. destroy by mistake

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[rǝǝ] letter name r the letter representing r in the Apatani alphabet

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[ri] v. throw

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Dialect: syn. ku, go

[ridóo] v. throw far

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[riimi] n. spider

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Dialect: var. riñbi syn. wci riimi

[roŋe roŋe] adv. sometimes; off and on

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[rupĩ] n. earring

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[rɨbó alo] n. three days hence

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Dialect: syn. rwbóda

[sampjá] n. wooden tray used for transporting soil from one place to the other in an agricultural field

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[sanɨ] n. tree

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[sisa] n. glass

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Dialect: or. Hindi

[suɁbi] v. ladle water for somebody

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[sɨcã] n. earth

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[tagjɨ̃ mɨjǝr] n. matchbox

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tagjá] n. wood wasp

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tahɨɁ] adj. hard of hearing

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tapĩ] n. ice

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twpiñ

[tapjaɁ] v. untie

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tarlar] n. peacock

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. tar pwta

[tasu-tase] adj. noisy; boisterous

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[tatũ bulũ] adj. chubby

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Dialect: var. utuñ buluñ

[tù] v. flood

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[ɨdã] n. spear

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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Dialect: var. adañ

[xɨɁkoɁ] v. unbolt

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[xɨka] v. count; innumerate

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[xɨxu-xɨce] v. discriminate; differentiate

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[jordĩ] n. upper portion of a hill

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Dialect: ant. yorko

[ɲalĩ] v. put one’s head out; peep out

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[ɲapaɁ] v. criticize; disapprove

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[ɲoxe] n. black panther (Panthera pardus)

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[álù] v. to work

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[árù] adj. coarse; rough; large ant. amw’

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