Apatani English

[abjo] adv. endearingly; fondly; affectionately

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[abù] adj. many; numerous; a lot of; plenty of

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[ací-búrù] n. brothers; siblings

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Dialect: var. ací-baró

[ado] n. stalk; main stem of a herbaceous plant

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[agũ] n. mouth; language

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[ahì amǝr] n. fruit items

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[amĩ-ahĩ] n. gift; present

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[ane] n. mother (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ama

[armĩ] adj. ripe

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Dialect: var. amiñ

[baarò] adj. big flat object

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. bazo, barzo

[bɨɉé bɨɉé] adj. many; in large numbers; profuse; copious

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[bɨsã tabú] n. a variety of snake; Green Ratsnake (Senticolis triaspis)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. busañ tabú

[bɨɨ] v. hold; keep; own

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. buu

[bjako] n. common term for berries

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[bóì] n. track made by large game

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[cahiɁ] n. miser

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daaɲó] adj. small step

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. daarò

[daɲi tatɨɁ arnɨɁ] n. solar eclipse

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[doha-dolo] n. world; realm

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dodiñ-dolo

[dula] n. rope to tie dogs

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. akì dula

[dulu káanɨ] n. a person who looks after somebody else’s cattle

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[dɨri-hulo] n. prosperity (in terms of number of children)

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[eɁcĩ] adv. skilled in shooting

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[haaʎĩ] n. fourth lunar month of the year; April

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[haʎã] adj. flat; plain

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. haapa

[hemó] v. suspect; doubt; distrust

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiile] v. smile smugly; simper; smile coquettishly; grin

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiŋ] num. three

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[iʎĩ] n. rectum

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ih] int. interjection to express disapproval

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉa] v. toss or throw a discus sidearm, such that it flies through the air; cause an object to soar by throwing

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉã] v. be trustworthy, as the omen of chickeen liver or egg might be

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[ɉolo] v. lift or carry down ant. joca

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[kado-lili] adv. publicly; in everybody’s full view

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[kanu] num. seven

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[kaŋu-kare] v. discriminate; be biased against; be prejudiced against

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[karmú] v. look with anger or disapproval

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[koɁrò] adj. big, of a bangle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. ko’zó

[kut tarɨ] n. coat

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Dialect: or. English

[kɨɲiɁ] adj. cruel; brutal; fiendish; ruthless

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[kée] v. pole vault; jump with a pole

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[laɁpjo] n. palm

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[laɁŋǝr] n. wrist

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[lalala] conj. then; and then

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[laŋe] num. hundred

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[lelaɁ] adj. fresh; new

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[luxè] v. speak rudely; speak brusquely

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[maɁlã] n. many; numerous; abundant

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miɁbeɁ] v. blink; wink

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[mɨdiko] adv. appropriately; suitably; relevantly

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[mɨneɁ] v. touch; beat

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[mɨxa] v. compete; challenge; contend with; vie with

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[mɨxu] v. demarcate; delineate; separate

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

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[mjobju] n. earthquake

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. myobu hu’nwñ

[mjokó] n. open space outside the village

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[nikũ dapo] n. customary law

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[nunupa] pron. for you (plural); second person plural pronoun, purpostive case

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[nuu] v. knead something (as dough) or as in washing cloth

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[nɨri pɨsa] n. a variety of pine; Himalayan hemlock (Tsuga dumosa)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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Dialect: syn. lwri pwsa

[ohoo] v. feed

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[pabù] adj. swollen; bloated; puffed up

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[paiɁ] v. get

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[palo-malo] n. world

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[patã aɉo] v. hire a labaour gang

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[piɁ] v. sharpen; hone; whet

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Dialect: var. apì

[piju] n. ashes obtained by burining of certain edible plants which are used for preparing pila by filteration

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[poɁdo] n. accident

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[pũtu] adj. hump; ridge; bulge; swelling

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Dialect: ant. paka’

[pjaɁmĩ puʎe] n. a variety of traditional shawl

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[pé] v. distribute; dole out; apportion; allocate

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[ru-xa] n. noise; tumult; commotion

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[saɁ] v. breath; suck; cough

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[saʎiɁ] adj. green

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[santú paju] n. a variety of resin used as glue obtained from a jungle berry

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[saŋ] n. cot; bed

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Dialect: syn. xaq

[sarma puɉũ] n. a mound of refuse mainly comprising of millet stalk and other weeds in a millet garden

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[sarsɨɁ] adj. bland; insipid; weak (of liquor)

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[sɨbjó] n. flying squirrel

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Dialect: syn. swcí

[sɨloda] adv. today

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[sɨma] n. corpse

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[sɨtɨ ahi] n. elephant tusk

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[taaxè] v. lie on one’s back; lie supine

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[tago alì] n. a wooden tricycle used a children’s toy the wheels of which are of tagó tree trunk

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tarɨ] n. shirt; top

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

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[tasu-tase] adj. noisy; boisterous

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[taxxũ] n. countercurrent fish trap

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[tã] v. drink; smoke

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[teɁhi] v. fall down

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[tẽ] v. keep in place; place something

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[tipi] n. thumb impression

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[tusiɁ-tusiɁ] adv. one after the other

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[tù] v. push

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[túcé] v. break something by kicking

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[uʎã kuti] n. metallic poker; safety pin

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Dialect: syn. fañso

[ɨŋa] n. baby

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[jasi parĩ] n. stork (Ciconia nigra)

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[jasi jalo] n. reflection

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