Apatani English

[abu-akeɁ] n. manure; fertilizer

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[abǝr] pron. something; something that is unspecified or unknown

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[abúu] n. a cylinderical structure

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Dialect: ant. aro’

[aʎóo kõsò] n. mantis

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[aʎú] v. lose something; misplace

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[agjú] n. string; cord

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Dialect: syn. aháa

[ahe] v. bet; wager; gamble

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[alɨɁ] v. insert; put

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[ane] n. mother (term of address)

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Dialect: syn. ama

[apur] prep. among; midst

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[atɨɁ] v. keep; store; retain; hold on to

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[atúu] n. progeny; young; offspring; baby animal

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[ã] int. an interjection at the end of a sentence to solicit agreement to a statement

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[bãbã] adj. heavy or hoarse voice

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[bjaɁ] v. hesitate; waver; vacillate

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[bíiɁ] v. emit sound; echo

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[ceɁ] v. argue; contend; claim; wrangle

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[ciĩ] v. weave

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[cuu] v. move with head forward

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[càa] v. take paddy from the granary

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[daɁʎa] v. wait (standing); halt; pause

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[deɁlo] n. frame of a basket, etc.

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[dorɲó] adj. small (of an animal or a vehicle)

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Dialect: ant. doorò

[duɁca] adv. get excited; fired up

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[dɨmɨ nanɨ] n. side dish

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[dáa] v. take step; pace; tread

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

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[ʎeɁpu] n. doorlatch

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Dialect: syn. arkonanw; fe’ko

[gũkiɁ] v. bend; stoop

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[gɨrɨ] n. spring action noose trap

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[haaso haaso] adv. slowly; sluggishly

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Dialect: syn. haasopa

[haaja] adj. hungry; famished; starving

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[hẽpũ-hẽka] adj. confusing; perplexing; complicated

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[ikũ] n. beewax, used for joining broken threads

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[iŋĩ] n. purple yam (Dioscorea alata)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[ĩbò] v. follow; go along with somebody

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[ɉarkĩ] n. jerakin; a container

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[ɉoɉuru] n. a fruit bearing creeper (Silene sp.)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[ɉoɉǝr] n. green june beetle

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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

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[kamó] n. bribe; kickback; inducement

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[kapjo] adj. good looking; beautiful

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Dialect: ant. karu

[keená] n. black necked crane (Grus nigricollis)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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Dialect: var. kenda

[kenda] n. black necked crane (Grus nigricollis)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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Dialect: var. keená

[kone] num. one

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[koju tapjo] n. coccyx; tail bone

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[kubu] n. rat; mouse

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[kɨce] v. break by hitting or punching

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[kɨmĩ talo] n. a variety of brass plate

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[kɨmì] n. poison (esp. of snake); snake venom

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Dialect: var. kwmè

[lãpru] n. a protective armor, usually of cloth covering the neck

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[lii] v. challenge, as in potlatch

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[lukó-lupè] v. interrupt; create confusion

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[lɨbã́ baɁnɨ] n. baby sitter

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[milo] n. male

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Dialect: ant. bwnw

[mɨbjaɁ] v. hurt by causing burns

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[mɨcǝr] adv. innovatively; ingenuously

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[mɨdǝr] v. rectify; do something correctly

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[mɨlaɁ] adj. skilled in doing something; expert

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[mɨmjó] v. do something in advance

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[mɨneɁ] v. touch; beat

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[mɨniɁ] v. Injure a bit while doing something

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[mɨŋu-mɨre] v. discriminate

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[mɨɲo] v. do something without purpose or for free

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[nãbo] v. push something across

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[nãpja] v. scatter by pushing

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[nẽdú] n. sesame (Sesamum indicum)

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Dialect: var. niñdú

[pabú] n. valley; gully

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[parĩ] adj. combination of two or more colors

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[perũ] n. bean

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[pẽci aɉĩ] n. a variety of traditional friend

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[pimpù] n. tiffin; light meal; small amount of food item (esp. for offering to deities)

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[pimpú] n. grains of cooked rice

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Dialect: syn. apiñ pimpú

[pisǝr] v. kill by cutting the throat

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[poɁle] v. stretch the truth; exaggerate

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[põtin] n. pen

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[puluɁ] v. cover

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[pjarò] adj. big, as a plot of land or a grain

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Dialect: ant. pyazó

[pìi] v. dry

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[ŋaatɨ] adj. lose taste or inability to eat more

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Dialect: syn. qaare

[ŋo] pron. I; first person singular pronoun

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[rilɨɁ] v. throw in

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[rɨbó alo] n. three days hence

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Dialect: syn. rwbóda

[rɨhĩ] n. a variety of tree

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[rò] v. spy; observe furtively; keep an eye on

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[sarkoɁ] v. rip open; tear open

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[taa] v. swim

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[tacĩ] v. understand; comprehend

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[Tanɨ miju] n. Apatani people

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[tapjo] n. herbal salt

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[tuuli] n. post; pillar

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[uuko] n. hole

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[ɨŋa] n. baby

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[xɨ] v. slide while in sitting position; scoot

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[jahĩ] adj. rotten (esp. of wood)

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[japĩ huxo] n. bamboo pin used to puncture the nose

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[ɲoho] v. feed a baby after chewing the food

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[ɲuɁpaɁ] v. erase; wipe out; rub off

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[ɲuu] v. prod as with a needle

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[ĩsi] dem. that (demonstrative)

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