Apatani English

[ací] n. elder brother’s wife (term of address)

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[aʎã] num. ten

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[aʎeɁ] n. door

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[ahú] v. wake up; rouse

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Dialect: syn. mwhù

[aɉĩ] v. befriend

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[aɉǝr] v. to be playful as a dog waging its tail

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[akì kíinɨ] n. bitch

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[akì tɨxè] n. flea

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Dialect: var. akì taxw

[amiɁ miɁbjo] n. eyelash

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[anɨ̀-aba] n. parent

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[apĩ] n. cooked rice

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[asã] n. north

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[asǝr] n. splinter (of wood)

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[axɨ ácì] n. stomach pain

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[ajádù] int. interjection of frustration

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[aɲìnɨ] n. second

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[basɨɁ] n. bank (of a river); riverbank; shore

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[belũ] n. friend; audience (term of reference)

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[belũku] pron. friends; audience (term of address)

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[bejũ] n. tomato; potato

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. byayuñ

[biɉe sudu] n. bamboo container; bamboo smoking pipe

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[birã] n. stump (esp. of bamboo)

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[buuʎú] n. tadpole

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[bɨlĩ kormo] n. a variety of fruit

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[bjajũ] n. tomato; potato

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Dialect: var. beyuñ

[bjo] v. swim

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[daɲi] n. sun

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[dãsò] n. spear with long handle

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[deʎã rɨcã] n. bell

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Dialect: syn. defañ rwci

[diì] v. detach; peel

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[dorɨ] n. winter

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[ʎaɁka] v. taste (by licking)

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[gaɁti] v. hold tightly

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[gõdu apĩ] n. feast after settlement of a dispute

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[gõpɨ] n. chin

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[gjuu] v. yell; howl; scream; shout

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[gjáa] v. spread (esp. seeds or sand by throwing)

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[haʎã] adj. flat; plain

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. haapa

[harlã] n. thigh

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hĩxã] num. thirty

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hoɁ] num. catch with a loop of rope; catch with a noose

Speaker: Nani Anga

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

Speaker: Nani Anga

[icã] n. dysentery; ailment with blood stained stool

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[iɉuɁ] n. weak; coward

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[ĩɉó-mɨɉó] n. wage; earning

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[ɉeɁbiɁ] n. mud; swampy area

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[ɉuɲa] adj. wet

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Dialect: ant. pitañ syn. juja

[kamiɉa] adv. last

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[kiruɁ] n. hunting party

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[ko] prep. in; at

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[kone kone] n. ? one by one

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[kooʎĩ] n. the evening before the last

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[kooxeɁ alló] n. ilium bone

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[kɨdi paju] n. glue obtained from a variety of tuber

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[kɨsã-kɨsò] n. a variety of semi-aquatic mammal

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[laɁkuɁ kǝrǝ] n. mole; a small burrowing insectivorous mammal

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[lãgja] adj. (dog) with a white neck

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[lẽbo] n. road

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Dialect: var. lembo

[luah] n. dumb; mute

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[lupjuɁ] v. spread false and damaging statements about someone; defame; slander;

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Dialect: syn. lupyu’-lusu’

[luuli hamã] n. Nepalese smartweed (Persicaria nepalensis); a variety of vegetable

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[malo] n. roof of a house

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[medǝr nelo] n. place of worship (Lit. ‘house of purity’)

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[miilò] n. eighth lunar month of the year; July-August

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Dialect: syn. miilò pwlò

[mɨgĩ] adj. beneficial; profitable, of works

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[mɨniɁ] v. Injure a bit while doing something

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨpaɁ] v. remove; spend

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[mɨpĩ] v. use or spend a portion

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Dialect: syn. mwmó

[naspati] n. pear

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[nikũ dapo] n. customary law

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[nu] adj. dark red colour

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[oho milobo] n. son

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

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[patã] n. traditional labour gang

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[patǝr] n. cage

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[poɁlã] n. grass

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[potuɁ] n. photo

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[pjapúu] n. early maturing variety of rice

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[pjarmo] n. feathers, usually of leaves, of an arrow; fletching

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[párkoɁ] v. screw open

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[párɨɨ] v. twist; turn around

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Dialect: syn. párww-paxe

[raɁtĩ] v. fasten (as of a door)

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[rĩbi] n. spider

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Dialect: var. riimi syn. wci riimi

[rubi] n. deaf

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[sadi-sapa] n. plantation

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[sãsũ] n. plantation

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Dialect: syn. sadi; salw

[sãxɨɁ] adj. retarded growth

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[seɲi] n. rhododendron

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[siĩbo] n. large-sized larvae of dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. tasiñ siñbo

[tagɨ] v. learn (by listening)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taka] v. ask; inquire; interrogate

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. tahw

[tariɁ burtaɁ] n. a variety of snake

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[tero jorsĩ] n. dry chili

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[tiilo] v. to pour some liquid down

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[tisǝr] adj. sweet

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[ugja-ragja] adj. with lots of holes

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[uugũ] n. entrance of a hole

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[ɨrɨ] v. fumigate rodents in their holes with smoke

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[xei áʎò] n. cinnamon bark

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[xooló] adj. main; supreme; principal; chief; head

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