Apatani English

[aamɨ] n. mango

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[abba-ci] n. step-father

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[aʎĩ daʎi] n. afternoon

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[agjú] n. string; cord

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Dialect: syn. aháa

[ahi daktor] n. dentist

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[aɉóo] v. hire; pay for

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[alǝr] adj. hard; firm; rigid; strong

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Dialect: syn. arlv

[amú] v. to tell a lie

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[apĩ gaɁhĩ] n. ball of cooked rice

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[apĩ pɨcã] n. pot for cooking rice

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[artĩ ku] v. castrate

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[asĩ] v. feed (esp. liquid food)

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[axɨ] n. comb

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[baɉi] n. time

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[biɉe arɨ] n. bundle of bamboo

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[buuxe] n. a variety of house rat

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[bɨʎĩ] n. yesterday evening

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[bɨʎoɁ] adj. nearby; near

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[bɨnɨ] n. female; damsel; lady

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[bjaakã] n. space underneath the house

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[bjaaɲó] adj. narrow (esp. of path)

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[car] v. boil

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[còoʎa] v. limp

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[dapo] n. penalty; prohibition; sanction

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[daŋi] v. fall (from standing position); tumble

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[duɁca] adv. get excited; fired up

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[dáa] v. take step; pace; tread

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

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[ẽtɨ patã] n. labor gang for paddy harvesting

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[ʎapu puʎe] n. an ordinary customary white shawl

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[haabjã] n. chest

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[hadɨ] n. anger

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[hogja gjamu] n. clouded leopard

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[huɁbĩ] n. sweat

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[huã alló] n. backbone

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Dialect: var. hoañ alló

[huuto] n. light

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[hɨro hamã] n. a variety of eggplant taken as vegetable

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[hɨɨɲi] dem. those two

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[háako] n. entrance

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Dialect: syn. áako

[iɉa] int. interjection to express repugnance

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Dialect: syn. iza

[imi iɁhɨɁ] v. oversleep; sleep longer than intended

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[ĩɉó-mɨɉó] n. wage; earning

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[ĩpó] v. cross; pass by

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[ɉarpĩ] v. hysteria; sickness caused by the spirit of a dead person

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[ɉeɁmeɁ] adj. flat; deflatted

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[ɉáa] v. soar or fly without flapping the wings (as a hawk)

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[kami-kami] adv. in front of one’s eye

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[kaù] v. envy; begrudge

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[koku dɨru] adj. bulky; oversized; massive; cumbersome

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[kompjutar] n. computer

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Dialect: or. English

[kone abiɁ] pron. everyone

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[kooló] n. iliac crest

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[koŋ kolò] n. four days back

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[kormu] n. grasshopper var. kurmu

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[lã] v. move (esp. of head)

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[leɁta] v. spread, as wing

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Dialect: syn. le’tvr

[li lilã] n. cicada (Cicadidae)

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[lopo] n. half day

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Dialect: ant. lobyañ

[lɨpi] v. wash or clean the feet

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[mida] n. a part of marriage ceremony

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[mɨgã] n. feathers of cock, usually of its tail

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[mɨgĩ] adj. beneficial; profitable, of works

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[nakú] n. uncle, esp. maternal (term of address)

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Dialect: syn. aku

[paʎi] v. patch; patch on; stitch up; repair

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[paroɁ roɁnɨ] n. hen

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[paroɁ jo] n. chicken (meat)

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[parsĩ] n. red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus)

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[pataɁ] n. bamboo split; flat object

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[patɨ rĩbi] n. a variety of spider

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[paxuɁ] n. partridge

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[pimpù] n. tiffin; light meal; small amount of food item (esp. for offering to deities)

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[purò] adj. big (of spherical objects)

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Dialect: ant. puzó

[pɨʎi] num. four

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[pɨgo] n. matter; subject; affair

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Dialect: syn. hago

[pɨgja gjapúu] n. wreathed hornbill (Aceros undulatus)

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[pɨra] adj. infertile (of egg)

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[pjoɁsu] v. brush one’s teeth

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[pù] v. hatch (an egg)

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[rilo] v. throw something downwards

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Dialect: ant. rica

[ronɨ] n. madman; lunatic; maniac

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Dialect: syn. runw

[santú paju] n. a variety of resin used as glue obtained from a jungle berry

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[sardĩ] n. short-cut

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[sarɨ] n. knot (of tree); nodule; node

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[sã] v. push or stuff something

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[sitãpa] adv. like this; this way

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[takoɁ] n. dirt

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[taxoɁ] v. disagree; disobey

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[tã] v. drink; smoke

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[tiɁpaɁ] v. erase; wipe off; rub out

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

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[tõsǝr] v. advise; suggest; counsel; guide

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[tumbu ude] n. tent

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[tur] v. be alive

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Dialect: var. tor

[tɨdɨ] adj. short

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Dialect: ant. wbyo’

[xeɲiɁ] n. temple

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Dialect: var. xeñji’

[jadĩ] n. storage basket of bamboo or cane

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[jahĩ] adj. rotten (esp. of wood)

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[áakò] n. entrance; entry; door

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Dialect: var. háakò

[úì] n. spirit; god; devil

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[úì bar] v. a variety of chanting during a particular ritual

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