Apatani English

[abuɁ] v. coddled; pampered

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[abúu] n. a cylinderical structure

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. aro’

[adú] n. noise; sound

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. kúcì

[aʎee] v. shiver; tremble; shudder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alo] n. day

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[amɨɁ] adj. small; tiny; fine

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Dialect: ant. árù

[anɨɁ] v. swallow; gulp down; ingest

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. arnw’

[apǝr] n. gallbladder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɨɁ] v. forget

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[bǝǝ] letter name b the letter representing b in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨhĩ] n. a variety of tree

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨlũ-bɨle] adj. sickly, unappetizing var. buluñ-bwle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. buluñ-bwle

[bjɨ] n. a species of bamboo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bár] v. charge interest

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[caaɉeɁ] v. step on something

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cãtũ] n. primordian protective deity of the Apatanis

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ciruɁ] n. pocket; pouch

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. cíkù

[cudu-cubo] adj. imprudent; reckless

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[dopu mɨdóo] n. drizzle on a sunny day

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dui] n. tobacco

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[dɨroɁ] n. medicine; drug

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[gehe] v. yawn

Speaker: Tage Numpi

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. hafañ hamañ

[golu] v. lie

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gora] n. horse

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[guŋa] v. lie down (esp. of quadruplets)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haaja] adj. hungry; famished; starving

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽ] v. think; love

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hixuɁ] n. wet fermented bamboo shoot

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɲò] n. the ninth day of the ten-day post-natal confinement of a mother and newborn

Speaker: Nani Anga

[icu] adj. few; some; scant; meagre

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. ice

[ĩgja] n. space between the fireplace and the side wall of a traditional house

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉiimu] v. giddy; dizzy; vertiginous

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. sumu

[ɉimi-ɉaama] adj. hazy; smoggy

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kagjaɁ] v. see wrongly

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[kaɉi] n. a variety of traditional dish

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

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[kalaɁ] v. recognize; know

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Dialect: syn. kaciñ

[kapanɨ] n. witness

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[kaxè] v. look in anger

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[koɁroɁ] n. traditional relationship usually the maternal uncle to whom a portion of the sacrificial animal is offered

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koro] n. saw syn. aarí

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[kortú] n. metal capping at the end of the handle of a ceremonial sword (ci’rì)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨle toʎoɁ] n. sweet flag; a variety of flowering plants that grow along river banks and marshy places (Acorus calamus)

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[laɁke] v. cross or fold one’s arms

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁso goɁhe] n. one unit of la’so, equivalent to the distance between outstretched thumb and middle finger

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁtaɁ] n. short stick usually used as a weapon for beating or throwing=

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[luɲo] v. speak without purpose

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨpja] n. shin

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨtaɁ] n. cockspur

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨɨbũ] n. unnatural death, of a woman

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[martul] n. hammer

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[mepa] v. search out; find out

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mikĩ] n. title used for dead males

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. misi

[mituɁ] n. tip; apex; sharp end

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. arañ

[mɨʎo] n. flame

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨɉù-mɨmjo] n. ways of doing; custom

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨmur] v. do something wrongly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨpjó] v. do something secretly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨju] n. ash

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[narũ] n. fencing (esp. of bamboo garden)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽ] v. sniff; smell

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[nunumi] pron. you (plural); second person plural pronoun, accusative case

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨtãpà] pron. how

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[pacoɁ] n. head of a stream

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[pacuhe] n. measure worth of a chicken or paddy in a pacu yagw

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[pacá] v. levy fine

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[papaɁ] v. cut off or chop off

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[papuu] n. white (esp. hen)

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[papú] n. puffed grain

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[par] v. crawl under something; creep; wriggle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[perũ] n. bean

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[poɁdo] n. accident

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[pɨlo tatu] n. half moon

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[pɨló] n. lever

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[pɨsa saaxu] n. pine cone

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjarpjaɁ] v. unfold

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[pàr] v. solidify; bake

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[pì] v. clap; pat; swat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨɁ] v. bind; strap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨxɨ aʎĩ] n. the evening after four days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sabeɁ] n. key

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: Or. Assamese

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɁkó] v. dig a hole or trench

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[takĩ] n. cowrie shell

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. takiñ za’co

[takoɁ] n. dirt

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tamaɁ] n. a variety of tree

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[teɁʎa] adj. slanted

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨ] v. offer

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[xetaɁ] n. book

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[xẽ] v. toil

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Dialect: syn. apó xeñ

[xɨɨnɨ̃] adj. cooked

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[jasi jaɉuɁ] n. water ladle

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[jo asóo] n. strips of smoke preserved pork

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[ɲaɁtu] n. knife

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[ɲaa] v. point; aim; direct

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲiɁxã] num. twenty

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[áagjaɁ] v. come to a wrong place or a wrong way

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[óòpaɁ] v. hoe off; dig out

Speaker: Tage Kanno