Apatani English

[a] int. an interjection at the end of a sentence to emphasize or reinforce the statement made

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[abba-apá] n. ancestor; forefather; progenitor

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[abju] v. move; shake; flutter; budge

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[aʎã pɨʎi] num. forty

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[aʎã xɨ] num. sixty

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[ageɁ] n. quiver

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[ahú] v. wake up; rouse

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Dialect: syn. mwhù

[akì taxɨ] n. flea

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Dialect: var. akì twxè

[alɨɁ] v. exchange; interchange; swap

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[aŋaɁ] v. tie into a bundle

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[artĩ bɨlĩ] n. testicle

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[axeɁ] n. kidney

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Dialect: var. arxe’

[ajúu] n. long time back

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

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[buuì] n. rat dropping

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[bjodĩ] n. an element of ritual altar

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[bíi] v. cascade; flow (as water)

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[ciirɨ] n. edge; brim

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Dialect: syn. lwwrw

[daɁreɁke] n. lower rack over the fireplace

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Dialect: syn. daare’ re’ke

[daruu] n. summer

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[dempjo] n. mouse

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[diikoɁ] n. hard soil; lumps of soil

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[dimǝr] n. dust

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Dialect: syn. pwmvr

[dĩ] v. pound with something

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[dogĩ] n. genesis; origin; creation; migration

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[du] v. drip (of water)

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[dɨleɁ] n. remaining food after consumption

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[emo] n. paddy; unhusked rice

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Dialect: var. imo

[endi] n. rice plant; rice seedling

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[ʎeɁpo] v. join a thread by rollin on the palms

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[gartú] adj. small (as a field)

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Dialect: ant. gaarò

[gorá] n. a section of Apatani village council

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[gju-gjuro] n. trachea

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[haʎã hamã] n. Redflower Ragleaf; Fireweed (Crassocephalum crepidioides)

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Dialect: syn. genda hamañ

[harlã] n. thigh

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[hemjó] v. plan in advance; plan

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[hiɁ] v. feel; search with hand

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[hɨɨ] pron. that

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[háatɨ mɨlɨ] adv. hopefully; confidently; optimistically

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[iɁŋǝr] v. snore

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[ipaɁ tamiɁ] n. green bottle fly (Lucilla sp.)

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[itì] n. a lump of solidified ash

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[ĩgo] n. task; obligation to go

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[ɉaaku-ɉaaʎa] v. stagger; walk unsteadily

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[ɉokoɁ] v. opening something by lifting up the lid jopyañ

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[kahò] v. take note of; mark something

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[karɨɁ] v. meet; greet

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[katì] v. review; re-examine; re-evaluate

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[kẽte abíi] n. a variety of skirt of black and white color

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[kokã] adj. late; lower

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Dialect: syn. kami

[koló] n. in the olden days

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[komã] adj. dark (esp. to describe shades of color)

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[kɨmǝr] n. a person who castrates pigs

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Dialect: syn. kenná

[kɨrã] adj. hardworking; often

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[kée] v. pole vault; jump with a pole

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[laɁxɨ̃] n. dirt on the hands

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[lã] v. move (esp. of head)

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[luutɨ] n. grazing ground; pasture; meadow

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[lɨtaɁ] n. cockspur

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[medǝr] n. purification; purification ritual

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[more mɨjã] n. black kite (Milvus migrans)

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[more pai] n. laughing thrush

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[mubu] n. ash; ash color

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[mɨdĩ-kɨlĩ] adv. intentionally

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Dialect: syn. mwdiñpa

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

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[mɨsɨ] n. task; things to do

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[nẽcã] n. plot of land for home

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[no] pron. you; second person singular pronoun

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[oho búu] v. give birth

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[pace] v. cut into two pieces

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[pala] n. scale; weighing machine

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[papi] n. wood chip

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[pajaɁ] v. attack; quarrel

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Dialect: syn. paya’-gaaya’

[Pinɨ] n. Creator

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[poɁ] v. hop; bounce; leap

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[poli] n. seed

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[pur] v. pluck (fruits); remove

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[pɨjo] n. Rufous-necked hornbill (Aceros nepalensis)

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[pjo] v. open (as eye)

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[rũtì] v. crouch with heads lowered

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[saɁpu] v. be confident; underestimate; underrate; confident

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Dialect: var. sa’po

[saati] n. pine sap

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[santú] n. tree

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[sarkoɁ] v. rip open; tear open

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

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[seh] n. flat cane string for carrying load

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[surù] n. coarse sand

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[sárce] v. tear something into two parts

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[tahɨ] v. ask; inquire; interrogate

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Dialect: syn. taka

[Tanɨ] n. Apatani tribe; people of Apatani tribe

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[tapeɁ] n. leech

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Dialect: var. twpe’

[taruɁ] n. ant

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[taxò] n. bamboo split used for demarcating land

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[ɨro o] n. beer prepared in large scale for occasions like Muruñ ritual

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[jasi anɨ] n. water beetle

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Dialect: syn. cuuzi

[jasi harxɨ] n. whirlpool

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[jorko] n. lower portion of a hill

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Dialect: ant. yordiñ

[jugjã] n. ritual altar of the Apatanis

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Dialect: syn. agyañ

[ɲibja] adv. fast; quick

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[árù] n. weed; unwanted plant in an cultivated field

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