Apatani English

[abaɁ] v. put a load; help carry

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[adĩ ácì] n. headache

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[agɨ] v. dress; clothe; put on dress

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ahu] n. body; torso

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ahu-apo

[aɉí] n. farm; wet agricultural field

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alló] n. bone

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[anu-abã] n. brothers; sibling

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apó] n. body

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axoo] adj. entangled (hair)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axɨ harnɨ̃] n. diarrhea

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[barde] n. cane basket used for distilling rice/millet beer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bilã abíi] n. Red and white Apatani traditional skirt

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ceeda] part. almost; close to

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dẽki] adj. sincere; obedient

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. dema

[dorgi] n. earthworm

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[duɁca] adv. get excited; fired up

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gɨɨrò] adj. big (of a basket)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gwwzó

[hadɨ] v. be angry

Speaker: Nani Anga

[harú] adj. popular (as of one’s personality)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heʎu] v. forget

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. aháa ahw’

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

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huã alló] n. backbone

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. hoañ alló

[iɉa] int. interjection to express repugnance

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. iza

[ĩrɨɁ] v. meet; meet up with; run into

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaco] adj. dirty; soiled; smeared; filthy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kaʎu-kaca] adj. unrecognizable

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karo] v. spy; peep

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[katĩ] v. compare; analogize to; equate to

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kokǝr] v. arrange a string (like a cane) into a circular form

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kupjuɁ kusǝr] v. rinse, esp. a container like a pot

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kupyu’

[kusuɁ] n. hay; straw

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. lwsi’

[leɁpì] n. Chinese green onion (Allium fistulosum)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tale’; twle’

[loorɨɁlo] int. interjection to express hopelessness

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. amw arwlò

[lunù-luna] v. speak in vain

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lusi-luhaɁ] adj. irritating, exasperating or irksome (to talk to)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨdì] n. base; bottom; way; footprint

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[lɨpja] n. shin

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mẽli] v. kill as revenge

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. meli

[miɁbeɁ amu] n. eyelash

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mi’byo’ amu

[miɁjeɁ] v. wink

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mida] n. a part of marriage ceremony

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miimaɁ] n. a variety of hebaceous plant whose slender leaves are used to tie bundles of paddy or millet plant (Miscanthus sinensis)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨbo-lubo] v. participate; assist; support

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨdu-mɨje] n. strands of hair extending down the forehead, as often kept by young women

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨʎu] v. waste; spend

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨkĩ] v. show how something is done; demonstrate

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨɨ] v. heal

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨjaɁ] v. interfere; encroach

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjole] n. an element of ritual altar

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mò] pron. he; she; third person singular pronoun

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[neɁ] v. rub or scrape

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nelii] n. world of the dead

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. nelii myokó

[ni] v. prune

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[o xuiɁ hamã] n. a variety of vegetable; creeping woodsorrel (Oxalis corniculata)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pacu jagɨ] n. a small cane basket used as a measure of grain

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pagi] n. debt; financial obligation; outstanding payment

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pamã] n. bamboo rack in front wall of the house

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[par] v. make or light fire; ignite fire

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[paɲiɁ] n. small broken pieces of rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[piɁɲi] num. eight

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[pu] v. make; create; manufacture

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[puɲó] adj. small (of spherical objects)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. purò

[pɨlo tatu] n. half moon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨló] n. lever

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[pɨɲu] n. spoon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[párkó] v. drill a hole

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[ŋɨpa] pron. for me

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ripaɁ] v. throw something away

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rì aʎĩ] n. the day after tomorrow evening

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saɁca] v. get excited; be motivated

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. du’ca

[sabɨ] n. officer; a dignified person

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sõ] v. move sideways

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[sɨdĩ] n. barking deer; muntjac

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨtɨ] n. elephant

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[sɨxɨ̀] n. porcupine

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. swxẁ puxẁ

[tabu ŋɨi] n. eel (Anguilliformes)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tace] v. divide; distribute

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tamì] n. weed

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tapiɁ] n. a variety of bird

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[teli] n. oil

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[tẽ] v. keep in place; place something

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tẽbjaɁ] v. get burnt by touching something hot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tiɁ] v. rub; scratch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tuulu] n. sub-clan

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨɁdĩ] v. collide

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[uʎã kuti] n. metallic poker; safety pin

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. fañso

[ɨŋa gɨ] v. be pregnant

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xaarũ] n. a benevolent god that protects a household

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xelɨɁ] v. force someone to do something

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨpaɁ] v. subtract

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jǝǝ] letter name y the letter representing j in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jar] v. persuade; coax; convince; win over

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jara] n. a cane basket used by males for fetching firewood

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jaxo] n. stick

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

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[áakúr] v. return; come back

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ámè] v. mate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[óò] v. till (with spade); dig; plow

Speaker: Tage Kanno