Apatani English

[abju-ateɁ] n. movement; motion; activity

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. abyú-axe’

[aíi] n. blood

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

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Dialect: var. bwsañ tabú

[buukò] n. a variety of large jungle rat

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[bɨɲa-bɨɲa] adj. silky; delicate; soft

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bwzi’-bwza

[ca] v. ascend; go up; rise (of the sun); sprout (of a plant)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cãcã] adj. cold (to the touch); chilly; gelid

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[cãtɨ-dotɨ] n. universe; cosmos

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[cicĩ] n. a variety of ritual (esp. to ward off malevolent spirit)

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Dialect: ant. twgò

[cíi] v. be extinct

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[dasǝr] adj. free; without burden; unencumbered

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. heñsvr

[daɲi áago] n. west

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Dialect: syn. haatw

[deʎã rɨci] n. bell

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. defañ rwcañ

[dempjo] n. mouse

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[diikoɁ] n. hard soil; lumps of soil

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[dooli] n. sickness; fever

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[dũbĩ] adj. bald; hairless

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Dialect: syn. duñxó

[dɨdɨɁ] v. poisoned (by eating)

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[dɨlɨ kɨce] n. bamboo glass for measuring rice

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[eʎã] n. ear of grain

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[ẽbĩ] n. husked rice

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[ʎo] v. jump

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[gaɁciɁ] v. hold something at its tip or edge

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[garpɨɁ] n. paddy field in the lower portion

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. garta’

[goiɁdado] adv. wholely, entirely

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[golu] n. lie; untruth; falsehood

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gõkoɁ] v. open mouth

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Dialect: ant. goñpiñ; goñpyañ

[gɨda-pata] n. large cane basket

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[gɨneɁ-gɨse] v. lightly touch with any part of the body; flirt

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[gja] v. dry (as of liquid)

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[gjoɁ] v. prepare cane rope; smoothen cane rope

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[harɨ] v. twist; turn

Speaker: Nani Anga

[henɨ-mjanɨ] n. relatives; kindred; kith and kin

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hoɁjo-hoɁci] v. mixed up; mingle; intermingle; amalgamate

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. ho’gyo-ho’fo

[hu] pron. who

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨbaɁ] adj. next; following

Speaker: Nani Anga

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉalo] conj. although; even if; or

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[ɉigɉiro] n. kind of a traditional shawl

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

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[kaʎu-kaca] adj. unrecognizable

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[kaka-taka] v. take stock of; make enquiries

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[kakĩ] v. show; display; exhibit

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[kanuda] n. in five days; five days hence

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[keɁke] adj. saturated; strong, of taste; thick

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[kinɨ] n. bitch

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[kolĩ] v. throw out (from the mouth)

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[koojo] n. the night before the last

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[lar] v. challenge; bet

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[lupaɁ] v. criticize; denounce; condemn; speak ill of someone

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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Dialect: var. nwri pwsa

[lɨɨ] v. lie down

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[marlã] n. rust

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. harti

[meɁ] v. join; link; couple

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Dialect: syn. me’si’

[milo] n. male

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. bwnw

[muɉa] n. socks

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[murũ] n. first month of the lunar year; January; name of the festival celebrated in January

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨgó] n. hearth; fireplace

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨpu] v. do something inadvertently; commit mistake

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[mɨjaɁ] v. interfere; encroach

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[mɨɲaɁ] v. smoothen; polish

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[mjobju] n. earthquake

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

[nesú] n. granary

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[nẽkeɁ] n. thirteenth lunar month of the year; December-January

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[no ho] pron. where

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[paroɁ lopa] n. stick to drive away chickens

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[paxɨɁ] v. cut to break or fracture bones in a piece of meat

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[pẽko] n. intermediate position; middle

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Dialect: syn. puñko

[pipo] v. cut accidentally with something sharp

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[puɉĩ] v. stretch; lengthen; elongate; make longer

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Dialect: syn. tw’jiñ

[pɨju] n. news

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Dialect: var. puyu

[pàr] v. solidify; bake

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[ŋurca] v. move up something heavy using lever

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[rɨɉã] n. a bamboo species (Chimonobambusa sp.)

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[saɁpeɁ] v. optimistic; hopeful; be confident

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Dialect: ant. sa’xw’

[sado] n. boyfriend; male lover

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Dialect: syn. miya

[sapi] n. a variety of tree

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[sarpu sarse] n. an early ripening variety of millet

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[sarɨ] n. teacher

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Dialect: Or. English

[sokiɁ] n. chair

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[subú] n. alley; back alley

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[surúu doɲó] n. traitor; scoundrel

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[tace] v. divide; distribute

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tagjaɁ] v. hear wrongly

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[takoɁ] n. dirt

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[tapo] n. a variety of hardwood tree

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[tardu] n. a bamboo container for storing meat

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. yo tardu

[tarɉi] n. scorpion; centipede

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[tarɲe] n. pus

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Dialect: var. taze

[tasǝr] n. variety of cane

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[tuleɁ] adj. slippery

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Dialect: syn. bwle’

[tɨgò] n. a variety of ritual (esp. to propitiate benevolent deities)

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Dialect: ant. ciciñ

[uro] adv. forcefully; strongly

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[ɨŋa] n. baby

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[xe] v. force something

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[xẽɉiɁ] n. temple

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Dialect: var. xezi’

[jama] adj. poor

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[ɲimɨ ĩgja] n. space between the hearth and the wall on the right side while entering the house

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ámè] v. mate

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[ájò jooʎã lɨpa] n. midnight

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