Apatani English

[abju-axeɁ] n. movement; motion; activity

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Dialect: var. abyú-ate’

[adĩ] v. add; include; incorporate; admix

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[aʎã xɨ] num. sixty

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[akã] prep. bottom; beneath

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[amiɁ-agũ] n. design; motif; pattern (esp.in embroidery)

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[axɨ-ereɁ] n. entrails; viscera

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[ajóo tɨpè] n. pumpkin

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Dialect: syn. e’pè, tápè

[baltiŋ] n. bucket

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[biti] n. craft; activity involving skills in cane and bamboo craft

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[buʎú] n. tadpole

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[busuɁ] v. get loose; loosen; slacken

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[bɨso] adj. afraid; scared; terrified

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[caabã] v. crush something underground with the feet

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[caaŋeɁ-caaŋeɁ] adj. intense; stinging

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[ciɲuɁ] n. soot; impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of wood

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[cì] v. bite

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[dacã pɨcã] n. metallic pot

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[dooli] n. sickness; fever

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[dutĩ] n. wooden block for sitting on

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[dɨme] n. famine; food shortage

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Dialect: syn. haaya-myoxa

[dùukũ] n. meeting; gathering; assembly; congregation

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[ektor] n. actor

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Dialect: or. English

[genɨ nã] v. blame someone else for one’ own mistake

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[guɁ] v. turn or turn oneself over (esp. in lying position)

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[gulũ-gɨle] adj. lukewarm; tepid

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[haɁló] n. branch (of tree)

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

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[hẽco] v. tickle

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[hẽdǝr] v. conscious; understand; figure out

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[huɁhɨ-huɁxe] v. shake to and fro

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[hɨɲã] n. shame; shy

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[ɉaa] v. sway (as a drunken person do); stagger

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[ɉihĩ] n. rag; scrap of cloth; dirty linen

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[ɉoɉo roɁpo] n. a kind of a small bird

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[kanu] num. seven

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[kapaɁ] v. ignore; disregard; pay no heed to

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[katú] v. watch from a distance

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[kaù] v. envy; begrudge

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[kee] v. rub (like a tobacco in the hand)

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[kenda] n. black necked crane (Grus nigricollis)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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Dialect: var. keená

[koʎã] adj. round

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[kompjutar] n. computer

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Dialect: or. English

[kone kone] n. ? one by one

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[ku] v. ask for; beg; seek; request; solicit

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[kɨpaɁ] n. banana

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Dialect: syn. kwpa’ ahì

[laako] n. a crossed stick in front of the entrance to signify the performance of a ritual in the household

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[lẽ] v. collect, as honey

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[lobú] n. a part of loin loom

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[luga] adj. talkative; loquacious; garrulous

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[luxaɁ] v. speak wrongly

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Dialect: syn. lugya’

[lɨca] n. lame

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[manɨ perũ] n. a variety of bean; French bean

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[mɨ] v. do

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[mɨnì] v. prune; trim

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[mjɨ-oho] n. family; wife and children

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[nãtĩ] v. close by pushing

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[nunuka] pron. your (plural)

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[nɨrɨɁ] adj. adequate

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[nɨsĩ-nɨmã] n. flora; plants

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[paako] n. an element of babo

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[page] v. write; mark

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Dialect: syn. gè

[pano] v. sting

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[para] v. crawl in

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Dialect: ant. parliñ

[pató hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Clerodendrum colebrookianum)

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[pẽɉi ciɁri] n. a variety of valued sword

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[pilã-pisã] adj. light yellow

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[pĩciɁ] n. mouse

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[pɨɁpja] v. scatter by sweeping

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[pɨɉoda] adv. later on; after sometime

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[pɨɲã] n. a variety of ceremonial friend with whom the head of the sacrificial animal is exchanged

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[pjapĩ] n. early maturing variety of rice

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[pjapjũ] adv. together; in collaboration; in cooperation; jointly

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[ri] v. read

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Dialect: Or. Assamese

[rũtì] v. crouch with heads lowered

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[rɨbɨ] n. railing

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[sar] v. denigrate; criticise; disparage

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[sãkó] n. a kind of fruit

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[sɨɨ ixa] n. cow dung

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[sɨxɨ̀] n. porcupine

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Dialect: syn. swxẁ puxẁ

[tacã] n. wood-boring insect

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[takǝr] n. star

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[tamaɁ amu] n. fibres of tama’ tree used as cover of havershack or cap

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

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Dialect: var. twmiñ

[tariɁ burtaɁ] n. a variety of snake

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[tatɨɁ] n. frog

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[tɨɁlo] v. to pull down

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[tɨleɁ] n. a variety of garlic

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Dialect: syn. tale’

[ugù] n. fireplace; hearth

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[umjú] adj. pointed (as of a tip)

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[xa] v. peel; pare; skin; take the skin off

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[xetaɁ] n. book

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[xú] v. measure

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[jaaɉeɁ] adj. garrulous (of a person)

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[janu] adj. calm; peaceful; slow

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[jaso] n. cane

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[jopo] n. cane basket

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[ɲã] v. move with the head leading

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[ɲime] n. general term for people living in far north

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[ácì-ahè] n. ailment; suffering

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[óòpaɁ] v. hoe off; dig out

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