Apatani English

[aalú] n. potato or. Assamese

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byayuñ

[ahu ará] adj. naked; nude; undressed

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɉuɁ] n. weak person

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[akì tapúu] n. dog of white color

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alo kamjã] adj. everyday; daily; commonplace

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apuɁ amè] n. dandruff

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apóo] v. put cloths on cloth holder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[atú-kahè] n. size

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɨɁ] v. forget

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɲóo] v. be subject to a behavioral restriction due to a taboo.

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[beeɲì] n. term of address for two audience; term of reference for two persons

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[beẽ] v. shine, of sun; heat, of fire

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bukoʎeɁbe] n. larva of water beetle syn. fe’be

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. fe’be

[bɨɉǝr] n. market; bazaar

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[bjar] v. flip; flick

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjoopǝr] n. a variety of headgear

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjopa] n. cap; headgear

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ciɁpɨ] n. frame of the bamboo sliding door

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cuca] n. an element of a ritual altar

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cudu-cubo] adj. imprudent; reckless

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[doomu] adj. cloudy; overcast

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dorgi] n. earthworm

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨho-luho] adj. offending

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨli-dɨlo] adj. grandeur (of scenery); beautiful (of landscape)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨnɨ-barnɨ] n. wives of brothers (term of reference)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨpjo aíi] n. canine tooth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gaɁ] v. grasp; clutch; grip; grab

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[geɁ] v. stick; adhere to; glue

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. age’

[gehe] v. yawn

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gimbjo] n. a meat portion, containing the thoracic cage

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gipĩ] v. close (a hinged door)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. giko’ syn. gitiñ

[golu] n. lie; untruth; falsehood

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[haalo] n. August-September; ninth month of lunar year

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[heɁtaɁ] n. wooden agricultural implement (esp. used during construction of bundhs)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽɉu] n. attitude; way of thinking

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hiɁ] v. whip; lash; flog

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hirũ] n. tusk (of full grown wild pig)

Speaker: Nani Anga

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

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

[hubju] n. scum; froth

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɨ] pron. that

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[icu-abu] n. quantity

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[itú] adj. small; short

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[ɉiɉi ɉixo] adj. dark blue

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[ɉuɲa] adj. wet

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. pitañ syn. juja

[karɨ] adj. transparent; see through; translucent

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. karw-kasi

[keɁba] v. put cloth on somebody

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kolò lohe] n. two days back

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[koode koode] adv. waddling, of gait

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koju tapjo] n. coccyx; tail bone

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kumur] n. grasshopper

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. kurmu

[kɨdi swbi] n. serrow

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨɉǝr] v. brandish; wield; flaunt

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[lobu loci] n. skeleton

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. lobu

[lɨɨrɨ] n. edge; brim

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. cirw

[miɁɉu] n. eye discharge

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[misĩ] n. machine

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[mɨɉo] n. reward for doing something; wage

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨmur] v. do something wrongly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨnì] v. prune; trim

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨɲe] v. finish; give a finishing touch

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nago] n. ritual hut in the middle of a village

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[niti] adj. new

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[no] pron. you; second person singular pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨ] pron. what

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[paga] v. spread the legs apart

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pahe] v. pledge a property to the creditor as a security

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[palo-malo] n. world

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[patã aɉo] v. hire a labaour gang

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paxo] n. narrow channel in the wet rice cultivation fields

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. he’te’

[paì tapi pɨta] n. Scarlet Finch

Example: Photo by Nomo Hibu Layang

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pĩtú nanɨ] n. an element of loin loom

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjar] v. fold; braid

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[ratĩ] v. answer appropriately; silence a query

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨbó aʎĩ] n. the evening after three days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rúu] v. shed (as trees do of leaves)

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[sarli] n. millet seed preserved for the next season

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãgo tape] n. a kind of bead

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãkó] n. a kind of fruit

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[si] dem. this

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[siɁ] n. urine

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[soɁko] n. jaw

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[sɨre tɨxe] n. tick

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. swre taxe

[taɁ] v. chop (as to split something)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tamĩ] n. Common Indian madder (Rubia cordifolia)

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twmiñ

[tarpi] n. variety of cane

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tarpĩ] n. maggots

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tasǝr] n. variety of cane

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[tuʎa] v. ambush; lie in wait for; lay trap for

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[uuko] n. hole

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[ɨ̃co] int. expression of agreement

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[xaŋ] n. bed; cot

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. saq

[xei áʎò] n. cinnamon bark

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jamu mɨʎo] n. flame

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[juɁti] v. tighten; tie something tightly

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[ɲar] v. step on something

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. zor

[ɲar] v. whittle; pare; shave; trim

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲiɁxã] num. twenty

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[ɲime-jaru] n. rainbow

Speaker: Tage Kanno