Apatani English

[abba-apá] n. ancestor; forefather; progenitor

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[abba-ci] n. step-father

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[abjá] n. ladder; stepladder

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Dialect: var. abrv

[abú] adj. unlucky; unfortunate; jinxed; ill-fated

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Dialect: var. arbú,

[abúu] n. a cylinderical structure

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Dialect: ant. aro’

[adã] n. spear

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[aʎã] num. ten

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[aʎú] v. lose something; misplace

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[alo kamjã] adj. everyday; daily; commonplace

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[amiɁ ácì] n. conjunctivitis; eye disease

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[arã] n. bottom (of a tree or a bamboo)

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[arɉĩ] v. stretch (esp. one’s body)

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[armĩ] adj. ripe

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Dialect: var. amiñ

[attuɁ] v. close or block (esp. a hollow container)

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[atúu] n. progeny; young; offspring; baby animal

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[baɉi] n. time

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[bar] v. carry something with a horizontal bar or a rod

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[bortaɁ] n. a variety of snake; cobra var. burta’; sala burta

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Dialect: var. burta’; sala burta

[bɨso-kaco] n. forbidden; proscribed; prohibited

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[cǝǝ] letter name c tʃʌʌ the letter representing tʃ in the Apatani alphabet

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[caaɲaɁ poro] n. outer space

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[cẽ] v. bundle; bunch; clump

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[daɲi alo] n. Sunday

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[dãxɨ] v. beat to death; kill by beating

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[do] v. be; exist; lie

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Dialect: ant. zima

[doodu] n. drop

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[duɁca] adv. get excited; fired up

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[dɨrã] n. principal marriage gift to bride’s parent; one who gets such marriage gift

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[eɁcĩ] adv. skilled in shooting

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[ʎoo] v. tease out the outer layer of a bamboo as a rope

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[goo] v. demarcate a boundary (esp. with fencing)

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[gju-gjuro] n. trachea

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[haasĩ] v. dry (esp. over a fire)

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[haŋɨ] pron. something; a thing that is unknown or unspecified

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[hemjó] v. plan in advance; plan

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[hẽbjo] v. crave; desire; yearn; pine for

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[hẽɉu] n. attitude; way of thinking

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[hẽɉu-mɨɉu] n. behaviour; conduct; deportment

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[hibu] n. beak

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[hú] v. pound; pummel

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[imi] v. sleep

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[ɉiimu] n. giddiness

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[ɉirɨ] v. spin; rotate

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[kena kuru] n. a variety of bird

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[kẽ] v. injure; cause pain or discomfort

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[koha xage] num. ninety

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[kordu] n. way of wearing a cloth

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[koɲã ɲaŋe] n. three years back

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[kõdi appú] n. peach flower

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[kǝrǝ talo] n. mirror

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Dialect: syn. karo talo; kako yalo; kvlo yalo, kwrv talo

[kɨlè] n. tobacco leaves, esp. fresh ones

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Dialect: syn. muku

[lako-lape] v. exchange; interchange; keep something in disorderly fashion

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[luɉu-lumjo] adj. manner of speaking

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[luutɨ] n. grazing ground; pasture; meadow

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[lɨnɨ] n. big toe

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[milo] n. male

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Dialect: ant. bwnw

[mɨgã] n. feathers of cock, usually of its tail

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[mɨlãɉa] pron. all; everybody

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[mɨneɁ] v. touch; beat

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[nala pakaɁ] n. drain

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Dialect: syn. nala

[neha] n. man; human beings

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[nekã aʎeɁ] n. door of the toilet

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[no hokɨ] pron. from where

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[nɨɁteɁ] v. doze; nap; catnap

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[paciɁ] n. an element of a rat trap

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[pake] v. cross; intersect; crisscross

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[paroɁ lɨgo] n. time in the early morning when the cocks crow

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[patã aɉo] v. hire a labaour gang

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[patã áttò] n. a member of the labour gang in whose field it works on the day

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[patuɁ] n. prison; jail

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[popita ahì] n. papaya

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[pɨʎe] num. four

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Dialect: etym. pwfi + he

[pɨgja gjapúu] n. wreathed hornbill (Aceros undulatus)

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[pjarò] adj. big, as a plot of land or a grain

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Dialect: ant. pyazó

[rasó] v. position lengthwise

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Dialect: ant. rapw

[ratĩ] v. answer appropriately; silence a query

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[rica] v. throw something upwards

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Dialect: ant. rilo

[roŋe] adv. once; one time

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[rõxe] adv. six times

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[rupu] n. silver

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Dialect: var. rwpu

[saɁ] v. breath; suck; cough

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[saaxu] n. pine cone

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[sabè] n. loincloth

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[sãxɨɁ] n. a variety of plant used as dye (Eurya acuminata var. euprista)

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[seɲi] n. rhododendron

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[simbja] n. balcony in a traditional house

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Dialect: var. siñbya

[sɨmǝr] n. silt; sand

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[talɨ́ mjoko] n. land of the dead who meet with unnatural death

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[tapi] n. a variety of cane

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[tarpi] n. variety of cane

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[tisǝr] adj. sweet

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[tor] v. unfurl (of flag); spread

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[turcã] n. post; pillar

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Dialect: var. torcañ

[tùdaɁ] v. place or push something upright

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[ura] n. inside (as of a house)

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Dialect: ant. agoo

[jaaxuɁ] n. residue of something after rotting or decomposition

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[jasi] n. water

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[ɲẽciɁ] adj. tasty; delicious

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Dialect: syn. qeñci’

[ɲiɁxã] num. twenty

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[ɲoɁ] v. to abstain from doing some things during ritual prohibition

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