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[ací] n. elder brother’s wife (term of address)
Speaker: Tage Kanno
[aʎã] num. ten
[aʎeɁ] n. door
[ahú] v. wake up; rouse
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. mwhù span>
[aɉĩ] v. befriend
[aɉǝr] v. to be playful as a dog waging its tail
[akì kíinɨ] n. bitch
[akì tɨxè] n. flea
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: var. akì taxw span>
[amiɁ miɁbjo] n. eyelash
[anɨ̀-aba] n. parent
[apĩ] n. cooked rice
[asã] n. north
[asǝr] n. splinter (of wood)
[axɨ ácì] n. stomach pain
[ajádù] int. interjection of frustration
[aɲìnɨ] n. second
[basɨɁ] n. bank (of a river); riverbank; shore
Example: Photo by Tage Kanno
[belũ] n. friend; audience (term of reference)
[belũku] pron. friends; audience (term of address)
[bejũ] n. tomato; potato
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: var. byayuñ span>
[biɉe sudu] n. bamboo container; bamboo smoking pipe
[birã] n. stump (esp. of bamboo)
[buuʎú] n. tadpole
[bɨlĩ kormo] n. a variety of fruit
[bjajũ] n. tomato; potato
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: var. beyuñ span>
[bjo] v. swim
[daɲi] n. sun
[dãsò] n. spear with long handle
[deʎã rɨcã] n. bell
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. defañ rwci span>
[diì] v. detach; peel
[dorɨ] n. winter
[ʎaɁka] v. taste (by licking)
[gaɁti] v. hold tightly
[gõdu apĩ] n. feast after settlement of a dispute
[gõpɨ] n. chin
[gjuu] v. yell; howl; scream; shout
[gjáa] v. spread (esp. seeds or sand by throwing)
[haʎã] adj. flat; plain
Speaker: Nani Anga,Dialect: syn. haapa span>
[harlã] n. thigh
Speaker: Nani Anga
[hĩxã] num. thirty
[hoɁ] num. catch with a loop of rope; catch with a noose
[hɨɲò] n. the ninth day of the ten-day post-natal confinement of a mother and newborn
[icã] n. dysentery; ailment with blood stained stool
Speaker: Tage Yassing
[iɉuɁ] n. weak; coward
[ĩɉó-mɨɉó] n. wage; earning
[ɉeɁbiɁ] n. mud; swampy area
[ɉuɲa] adj. wet
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: ant. pitañ syn. juja span>
[kamiɉa] adv. last
[kiruɁ] n. hunting party
[ko] prep. in; at
[kone kone] n. ? one by one
[kooʎĩ] n. the evening before the last
[kooxeɁ alló] n. ilium bone
[kɨdi paju] n. glue obtained from a variety of tuber
[kɨsã-kɨsò] n. a variety of semi-aquatic mammal
[laɁkuɁ kǝrǝ] n. mole; a small burrowing insectivorous mammal
[lãgja] adj. (dog) with a white neck
[lẽbo] n. road
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: var. lembo span>
[luah] n. dumb; mute
[lupjuɁ] v. spread false and damaging statements about someone; defame; slander;
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. lupyu’-lusu’ span>
[luuli hamã] n. Nepalese smartweed (Persicaria nepalensis); a variety of vegetable
[malo] n. roof of a house
[medǝr nelo] n. place of worship (Lit. ‘house of purity’)
[miilò] n. eighth lunar month of the year; July-August
Speaker: Tage Yassing,Dialect: syn. miilò pwlò span>
[mɨgĩ] adj. beneficial; profitable, of works
[mɨniɁ] v. Injure a bit while doing something
[mɨpaɁ] v. remove; spend
[mɨpĩ] v. use or spend a portion
Speaker: Tage Yassing,Dialect: syn. mwmó span>
[naspati] n. pear
[nikũ dapo] n. customary law
[nu] adj. dark red colour
[oho milobo] n. son
[pahe] v. pledge a property to the creditor as a security
[patã] n. traditional labour gang
[patǝr] n. cage
[poɁlã] n. grass
[potuɁ] n. photo
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: or. Assamese span>
[pjapúu] n. early maturing variety of rice
[pjarmo] n. feathers, usually of leaves, of an arrow; fletching
[párkoɁ] v. screw open
[párɨɨ] v. twist; turn around
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. párww-paxe span>
[raɁtĩ] v. fasten (as of a door)
[rĩbi] n. spider
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: var. riimi syn. wci riimi span>
[rubi] n. deaf
[sadi-sapa] n. plantation
[sãsũ] n. plantation
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. sadi; salw span>
[sãxɨɁ] adj. retarded growth
[seɲi] n. rhododendron
[siĩbo] n. large-sized larvae of dragonfly
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. tasiñ siñbo span>
[tagɨ] v. learn (by listening)
Speaker: Tage Numpi
[taka] v. ask; inquire; interrogate
Speaker: Tage Numpi,Dialect: syn. tahw span>
[tariɁ burtaɁ] n. a variety of snake
[tero jorsĩ] n. dry chili
[tiilo] v. to pour some liquid down
[tisǝr] adj. sweet
[ugja-ragja] adj. with lots of holes
[uugũ] n. entrance of a hole
[ɨrɨ] v. fumigate rodents in their holes with smoke
[xei áʎò] n. cinnamon bark
[xooló] adj. main; supreme; principal; chief; head