Apatani English

[aarã] adj. deep

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. uurañ

[abǝr] pron. something; something that is unspecified or unknown

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[acò-amyò] n. animals; creatures

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[aʎiɁ] n. pig

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[ahi] n. tooth

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[akì durgu] n. wooden trough for feeding dogs

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[akì ipaɁ] n. faeces of dogs

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[apɨ] n. breadth

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[apó] n. body

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[arí] n. price; cost; charge

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[aróo] adj. poor; destitute

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[axɨ] n. comb

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjakuɁ taleɁ] n. onion

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[caaɲaɁ poro] n. outer space

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ciɁpi] n. wooden door frame

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[diikoɁ] n. hard soil; lumps of soil

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dur] v. dig and push (for example with the snout of a pig)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. dór

[eɁxaɁ] v. miss a target by shooting

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. e’da’

[ema] n. dream; reverie

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. imáa

[ʎiɁkũ-ʎiri] adj. wrinkled; crease; pucker; crinkle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gõpɨ] n. chin

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[gɨrɨ] n. spring action noose trap

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[gjopu] n. shooting star

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[gjuu] v. yell; howl; scream; shout

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

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Dialect: syn. pyañ var. gòrbú; gòbúr

[haapa] adj. flat; plain

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. haafañ, zipa

[harù] n. lung

Speaker: Nani Anga

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

Speaker: Nani Anga

[haspatǝr] n. hospital

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[hẽtĩ] v. trust; faith; confidence; belief

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiɁ] v. feel; search with hand

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hipja] n. front teeth; incisor

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hore] num. one bundle (esp. of thread)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɉo] n. a variety of bamboo

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɲur hamã] n. a variety of vegetable

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[ipaɁ tamiɁ] n. green bottle fly (Lucilla sp.)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[itì] n. a lump of solidified ash

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[ixã] n. trophy for recognition of achievement

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

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[keɁsí] n. scissor

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[kelaɁ] n. good writer; one who writes well

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[koju tapjo] n. coccyx; tail bone

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[kumur] n. grasshopper

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Dialect: var. kurmu

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

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Dialect: syn. kupyu’

[kutĩ] n. traditional relationship

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kutu] n. oil; pig fat used as hair oil

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kɨpaɁ ahì] n. banana

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kwpa’

[laɁdɨ] n. forefinger; a unit of measurement equivalent to the length of the outstretched thumb and forefinger

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lembo] n. road

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Dialect: var. leñbo

[luɉu-lumjo] adj. manner of speaking

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[lukó-lupè] v. interrupt; create confusion

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[meɁ] v. join; link; couple

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Dialect: syn. me’si’

[migũ] n. a variety of narrated oral literature

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miha] n. boyfriend; male lover

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mo] v. move one’s face

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨɉaɁ] v. tear something by handing it

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨxɨ̃-mɨmjɨ̃] adv. do something in a confused way

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨɲò] v. drill (esp. exercise)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjobju] n. earthquake

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. myobu hu’nwñ

[narikol] n. coconut

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[nẽdĩ] n. upper section of the village

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Dialect: ant. neñkó

[nõ] v. call (esp. an animal)

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[nɨɁpu] v. swallow without chewing; gozzle down; gobble down

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[palã tɨŋá] n. plum

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Dialect: or. English

[paroɁ patǝr] n. cage for chicken

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pĩbè] n. snow

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Dialect: var. peñbè

[pombo rɨko] n. millipede

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[puɲó] adj. small (of spherical objects)

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Dialect: ant. purò

[pjapúu] n. early maturing variety of rice

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[pù] v. hatch (an egg)

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[ŋaatɨ] adj. lose taste or inability to eat more

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Dialect: syn. qaare

[ŋarka ɉiɉa] adj. smiling; smiling face; happy

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[rɨgĩ] n. an element of gwrw (trap)

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[sabɨ] n. officer; a dignified person

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[santú tero] n. a variety of wild pepper

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[sãpǝr] n. a variety of fruit used as a spice

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[sãtũ] n. generation

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[siĩbo] n. large-sized larvae of dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. tasiñ siñbo

[soɲó] adj. thin (of objects like a thread)

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Dialect: ant. sorò

[surúu] adj. deceptive; crafty; treacherous

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[sɨɲi] n. sugar or. Assamese

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Dialect: var. swni

[sárce] v. tear something into two parts

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[takeɁ] n. germ

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[takĩ ɲaɁco] n. cowrie shell

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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Dialect: syn. takiñ

[tasǝr] n. variety of cane

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[teɁ] v. cut (esp. bushes)

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[tutu popo] adj. impulsive; impetuous; reckless

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[tɨdɨ] adj. short

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Dialect: ant. wbyo’

[tɨleɁ] n. a variety of garlic

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Dialect: syn. tale’

[uskul] n. school

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Dialect: or. English syn. wskul

[jaaɉeɁ] adj. garrulous (of a person)

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[jahĩ] adj. rotten (esp. of wood)

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[jamu] n. fire

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[jamu muku] n. smoke

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[jasi harxɨ] n. whirlpool

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[joʎã] n. dead of night

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[jorko] n. lower portion of a hill

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Dialect: ant. yordiñ

[jormɨɁ] n. dried chili pepper

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲaɁtu] n. knife

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[úì atúu] n. forest bug

Speaker: Tage Kanno