Apatani English

[abaɁ] v. put a load; help carry

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[abíi-tarɨ] n. dress; clothes; garments; attire

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[ahi pyoɁsu] v. brush one’s teeth

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[aɉo] adj. gentle; tender

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[amiɁ nuri] n. pupil

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[amú] v. to tell a lie

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[amɨ̀] n. daughter-in-law (term of address)

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[api-aláa] n. sap of a tree

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[apóo] v. put cloths on cloth holder

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[ataɁ] n. stinger (on a bee)

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Dialect: var. wta’

[axuɁ] v. regurgitate

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[aíi] n. blood

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[bahũ] adv. vomiting tendency; retch

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[bĩ] v. uproot (as of weed)

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[buudu-buugjá] n. household articles

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[bjurɨ-bjarɨ] adj. dirty; unappetizing; messy

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Dialect: syn. ulu-byalu

[dãxɨɁ] v. beat into fragmant (for example bone); fracture or break something by beating

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[dekĩ] n. clay

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[dĩxo] adj. bald-headed; hairless

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Dialect: syn. duñxó

[dobɨ-takǝr alo] n. Thursday

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[doopɨɁ] v. sleep together with head in same direction

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Dialect: ant. doosi’

[dotɨ] n. sky

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Dialect: syn. mwdóo; yapuñ

[dukã] n. shop

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[dɨɲo-mɨɲo] n. rehearsal

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[dùu] v. sit

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[eha] v. make ritual offerings to nature including forests and agricultural fields

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[haaro] adj. brave; courageous

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Dialect: ant. haame

[haaru] n. mourning; grief

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[haatĩ] adj. significant; important; notable; remarkable

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[hentǝr] adv. very; exeedingly; exceptionally; immensely

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Dialect: syn. hempvr

[hẽɉũpa] adv. comfortable

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[hẽsǝr] adj. not having any burden or impediment

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[huɁsi-rasi] adj. hot and humid

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[haágjá] n. entrance, door

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[ipoɁ poɁli] n. yeast used for preparation of new batches of yeasts

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[kageɁ] v. look at

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[kaɉiɁ] adj. good to look at; good

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[kooʎĩ] n. the evening before the last

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[kɨdĩ] v. knock; bang; thump

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[kɨlĩ] pron. whatever

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[laɁtĩ] adv. forcefully; with strength

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[laa] v. take; grasp; clutch

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[laapjó] v. steal (by taking with hands)

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[lamuɁ-laju] adj. pinkish (color)

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[lãxa] n. coop, as for poultry; shelter, as of a hunter in the tree

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[lelaɁ] adj. fresh; new

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[loʎã] n. ten days

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[lotɨ] adj. honest; straightforward

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

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[maɁlo] conj. either; or

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[maɉi] n. Tibetan bell without clapper used as a barter item

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[miɁjeɁ] v. wink

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[mipá sarse] n. an early ripening variety of millet mainly grown in paddy field bundhs

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[mohol] n. big house; bungalow

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[mɨkuɁ] v. make something fall by mistake

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[mɨlù-mɨle] v. disturb

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[mɨtĩ] v. obstruct

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[no] pron. you; second person singular pronoun

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[nɨmã] n. eaves and twigs; underbrush

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[ohó] adj. tall; high

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[paduɁ] v. hop to express extremes of emotions

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[pagi jaru] n. Common hoopoe (Upupa epops)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pakù sɨma] n. fine in the form of a middle-sized mithun for stealing or killing a cattle

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[par] v. crawl under something; creep; wriggle

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[patúu-papo] v. hack something into several pieces

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[paxɨ] v. kill by cutting

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[pĩciɁ sarsé] n. an early ripening variety of millet

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[poɁtũ pèerũ] n. a variety of bean

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Dialect: syn. amú pèeruñ

[pooɲó] adj. small (of cylinderical objects)

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Dialect: ant. pooro

[pɨɉĩ] n. moth

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[ŋunu] pron. we; first person plural pronoun

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[rari hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Piper brachystachum)

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Dialect: var. raru hamañ

[ri] v. read

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Dialect: Or. Assamese

[rõ] v. be mad; go insane; become crazy

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Dialect: var. ruñ

[rìi] v. mark; mark a line

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[sarma puɉũ] n. a mound of refuse mainly comprising of millet stalk and other weeds in a millet garden

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[sarsɨɁ] adj. bland; insipid; weak (of liquor)

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[sãtũ] n. generation

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[sĩbja] n. balcony in a traditional house

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Dialect: var. simbya

[sulú] n. fence

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[sɨgã] n. irrigation channel

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[sɨpiɁ] n. pangolin

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[tabu ŋɨi] n. eel (Anguilliformes)

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[tala] n. lock

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[talã] adj. brownish color (esp. of a cattle)

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[tapi] n. a variety of cane

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[tarì] n. hail

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[taxeɁ] n. a variety of cane

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[tuŋĩ] n. stump of a felled tree

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[tɨpe] n. tattoo

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[tɨxɨɁ] adj. curly

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[ɨpɨɁnɨ] n. sweeper

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[xɨpaɁ] v. subtract

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[jaɉuɁ pɨxo] n. a variety of dragonfly

Example: Photo by Gyati Habung

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[jalã] n. stone

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[jalu] n. dispute; conflict; controversy

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[jaŋo] num. five

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[ɲa] v. whittle; pare; shave; trim

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Dialect: var. zar

[ɲaaɲo] n. honey bee

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[ɲaŋo] n. five years

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