Apatani English

[abaɁ] v. put a load; help carry

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ahĩ] adj. same; similar; matching; identical

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apáa] adj. young; immature

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axuɁ] v. regurgitate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ajò lɨpá] n. midnight

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ajúu] n. long time back

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[buɁ] v. burst; explode

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨdí] adj. trick; tactic; strategy

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[bárì] n. traditional ballad (esp. in the genre of the Nyishis)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bìi] v. move to and fro; swing; oscillate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bù] v. uproot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cãdɨ metɨ] n. an agricultural ritual of the Apatanis

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ceɁ] v. cut (as with scissor)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[càa] v. take paddy from the granary

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dacã pɨloo] n. metallic crowbar

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dekĩ] n. clay

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ditũ] n. social event; occasion

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dituñ-potuñ

[dɨho-luho] adj. offending

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨpjó] v. eat first

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ẽtɨ] n. paddy harvest

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎǝǝ] letter name f ʎʌʌ the letter representing ʎ in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ha] v. come; arrive; enter

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. áa

[haatĩ] n. node (as of bamboo)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨgũ hamã] n. a variety of vegetable; Japanese parsley (Oenanthe javanica)

Example: Photo by Kanno Tage

Speaker: Nani Anga

[híi] v. chant; intone; incant

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ĩrɨɁ] v. meet; meet up with; run into

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉǝǝ] letter name j dʒʌʌ the letter representing dʒ in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉiɉe] adj. truthful, true

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kadú] v. look upwards

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kapjóɉaɁpa] adv. firstly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karbjã] adj. full (of the moon)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. harbyañ

[koɁroɁ] n. traditional relationship usually the maternal uncle to whom a portion of the sacrificial animal is offered

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kojũ] adv. thrusting movement of hips

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨlĩ] n. back; rear

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨri pamjo] n. business management

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kóò] n. son

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[lãpĩ] n. nape of the neck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lohè] post. till; until

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lopa] n. stick, usually used for beating

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pa’zi

[lɨɁ] v. put, esp. grains into a container

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[miɁbeɁ] v. blink; wink

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miikɨ] adj. belonging to others; not own

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[Misã bjako] n. yellow berried nightshade (Solanum xanthocarpum)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. swtw byako

[misì] adj. old woman

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[muɁ] v. rut (animals)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨdiko] adv. appropriately; suitably; relevantly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨɉo] n. reward for doing something; wage

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨkĩ] v. show how something is done; demonstrate

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨrã-mɨtu] adv. significantly; notably

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨxoɁ] v. peel or scrap, of a wound scab or a bark of a tree

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nitĩ] n. proverb

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. nitiñ-hormiñ

[nɨɲi] pron. you two; second person dual pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[palã tɨŋá] n. plum

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[pano] v. sting

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pasù] n. needle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pataɁ] n. bamboo split; flat object

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pató hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Clerodendrum colebrookianum)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[piɁreɁ] v. sharpen; hone; whet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pilã kamo] adj. dark yellow

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pur] v. pluck (fruits); remove

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨgĩ] n. vulture

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨsa saaxu] n. pine cone

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨxo] n. maize cob

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋɨʎã] n. variety of a fish considered sacred by the Apatanis

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[raɲiɁ] n. chain

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨgoɁ] n. cane loop tied on the horns of cows or mithuns

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. rwguñ

[sabũ] n. soap

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: Or. Assamese

[se] v. pull

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sẽ] v. wither; dry

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sopo] adj. slim; slender; svelte; lissome

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[subu sihɁ] n. pond or puddle where mithuns gather to drink water, here dry

Example: Photo by Hage Tara

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨdĩ] n. barking deer; muntjac

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨʎoɁ] n. river bank; beach

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨki] n. a variety of wild cat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨlɨɁ] n. water container of bamboo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨtɨ bjako] n. yellow berried nightshade (Solanum xanthocarpum)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tagɨ] v. learn (by listening)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. twniñ

[tapeɁ] n. leech

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. twpe’

[tapĩ] n. ice

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twpiñ

[tariɁ] n. body odor

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tariɁ burtaɁ] n. a variety of snake

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tau jamu] n. firefly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tiɁ] v. rub; scratch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨgeɁ] v. stick; adhere; be glued

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. age’

[xapaɁ] v. scrape something off

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xuiɁ] adj. sour

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨpó] v. cut a tree in the middle of its trunk

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨɨnɨ] n. navel

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jaɉuɁ pɨxo] n. a variety of dragonfly

Example: Photo by Gyati Habung

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jara] n. a cane basket used by males for fetching firewood

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jarì] n. traditional loincloth worn by males

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jarú] n. ear

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jasã] n. firewood; wood

Speaker: Tage Kanno