Apatani English

[ací-búrù] n. brothers; siblings

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Dialect: var. ací-baró

[adú] v. make noise

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[aʎã] num. ten

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[alĩ] n. ball; sphere

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[alì innánɨ] n. stilt; pair of pole equipped with footrest to enable a person to walk at a height from the ground

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[amu] n. hair

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[apóo] v. put cloths on cloth holder

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[aruɁ] n. outer covering of bean or corn

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[arò kõci] n. dawn

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[axor] n. letter

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[axuɁ] v. regurgitate

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[axɨ] n. guts; entrails; viscera

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[ajú] n. traditional ballad usually sang by the males as competition or simple narration

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[buɁ] v. burst; explode

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[buulì] n. variety of rats seen after bamboo flowering in large numbers

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[buũtɨ] n. tenth month of the year; October

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[caãxá-diixá] adj. barren; unproductive

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[carxɨ] v. boil properly; boil fully

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[cãciɁ-doci] adj. nagging; vexatiuos; troublesome (of a person)

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[ceeda] part. almost; close to

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[ciĩ] v. weave

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[cogĩ] v. squat; crouch

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[dɨ] v. eat; have a meal; dine

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[dɨnɨ-barnɨ] n. wives of brothers (term of reference)

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

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[elì] n. paddy seed; paddy preserved for next season’s sowing

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ʎeɁko] n. doorlatch

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Dialect: syn. arkonanw; fe’pu

[ʎoʎiɁ-cociɁ] n. rogue; an unreliable person

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Dialect: syn. suru dozó

[gaambɨ] n. border; brim; boundary

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gòo] v. swell (as a wound); bloat; bulge

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Dialect: syn. pyañ

[haaja] adj. hungry; famished; starving

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[harù] n. lung

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hemjó] v. plan in advance; plan

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[hẽdǝr] v. conscious; understand; figure out

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[hĩ] v. pinch

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[huã] n. back (anatomy)

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Dialect: var. hoañ

[hɨraɁ] adv. again; once more

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

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Dialect: syn. ice

[iɉuɁ] n. weak; coward

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[ɉihɨ-ɉixe] v. roll to and fro

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[kako jalo] n. mirror

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Dialect: syn. kvrv talo; kako talo; kvlo talo, kwrv talo

[kalaɁ-kapa] adj. acquainted with

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[kamɨ] n. work; task; job; occupation

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[kaxè] v. look in anger

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[koiɁ] v. a way of putting on a cloth on the body, esp. by the males

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[kooʎã] adj. round

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. koofo’

[kɨtaɁ] v. suffice; be adequate; be enough; meet requirements

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[luɉa] v. finish speaking; conclude

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[luxoɁ] v. disagree; express different opinion

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[martul] n. hammer

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[murpu] n. bonfire

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[mɨpaɁ] v. remove; spend

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[mɨsɨ] n. task; things to do

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[mjogu] v. migrate; relocate; resettle

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[mjokó] n. open space outside the village

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[nakó] n. portion of village (esp. the lower one)

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Dialect: ant. nami

[nar] v. borrow

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[narpaɁ] v. lend; loan

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[nẽcã] n. plot of land for home

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[nẽsu] v. jostle; scramble

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[pace] n. the other side

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[papù hajã] n. egg yolk

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[patɨ rĩbi] n. a variety of spider

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[paxè] n. mesh, which may be of wire, bamboo or cane; lattice

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[pimpú] n. grains of cooked rice

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Dialect: syn. apiñ pimpú

[poli] n. seed

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[põ] v. soak; marinate

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[puju] n. news

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Dialect: var. pwyu

[pɨɁ] v. sweep; clean

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[pɨca] adj. foolish, stupid, dumb

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[pɨpĩ] n. bamboo mat for drying paddy or millet

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pɨɲu] n. spoon

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[pjo] v. catch by pinching with a pincer

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[pì] v. divine an omen by examining an egg

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[pù] v. hatch (an egg)

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[raabúu] n. hollow

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[rapɨ] v. position breadthwise

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Dialect: ant. rasó

[ridóo] v. throw far

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[sarpu sarse] n. an early ripening variety of millet

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[sãsũ] adj. weedy

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[sɨbi] n. monkey

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[sɨloda] adv. today

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[sɨxó] n. water channel

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[taiɁ sɨtĩ] n. epileptic fit

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tasĩ pɨha] n. a variety of bamboo basket used for carrying vegetables or edible aquatic insects

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[taɲe] n. pus

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Dialect: syn. tarze

[ugù] n. fireplace; hearth

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[uuxaɁ] adj. shallow

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Dialect: syn. aaxa’ ant. ùurañ

[ǝǝ] letter name v ǝǝ the letter representing ǝ in the Apatani alphabet

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[ɨrã] n. storage space usually built outside the main wall of the house

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[xẽŋu] v. warm something

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[xɨɨnɨ̃] adj. cooked

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[xú] v. measure

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[jama] adj. poor

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[jorxũ] n. Sichuan pepper

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Dialect: syn. yorxañ

[ju] v. chant an ayú

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[ɲaɁtu] n. knife

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[ɲaaɲiɁ aláa] n. honey

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[ákó-ákó] pron. one by one; one after the other

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[óòpa] v. find something by hoeing

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