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[aamɨ] n. mango
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: or. Assamese span>
[abba-ci] n. step-father
Speaker: Tage Kanno
[aʎĩ daʎi] n. afternoon
[agjú] n. string; cord
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. aháa span>
[ahi daktor] n. dentist
[aɉóo] v. hire; pay for
[alǝr] adj. hard; firm; rigid; strong
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. arlv span>
[amú] v. to tell a lie
[apĩ gaɁhĩ] n. ball of cooked rice
[apĩ pɨcã] n. pot for cooking rice
[artĩ ku] v. castrate
[asĩ] v. feed (esp. liquid food)
[axɨ] n. comb
[baɉi] n. time
[biɉe arɨ] n. bundle of bamboo
Example: Photo by Tage Kanno
[buuxe] n. a variety of house rat
[bɨʎĩ] n. yesterday evening
[bɨʎoɁ] adj. nearby; near
[bɨnɨ] n. female; damsel; lady
[bjaakã] n. space underneath the house
[bjaaɲó] adj. narrow (esp. of path)
[car] v. boil
[còoʎa] v. limp
[dapo] n. penalty; prohibition; sanction
[daŋi] v. fall (from standing position); tumble
[duɁca] adv. get excited; fired up
[dáa] v. take step; pace; tread
[eha] v. make ritual offerings to nature including forests and agricultural fields
[ẽtɨ patã] n. labor gang for paddy harvesting
Speaker: Tage Yassing
[ʎapu puʎe] n. an ordinary customary white shawl
[haabjã] n. chest
[hadɨ] n. anger
Speaker: Nani Anga
[hogja gjamu] n. clouded leopard
[huɁbĩ] n. sweat
[huã alló] n. backbone
Speaker: Nani Anga,Dialect: var. hoañ alló span>
[huuto] n. light
[hɨro hamã] n. a variety of eggplant taken as vegetable
[hɨɨɲi] dem. those two
[háako] n. entrance
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. áako span>
[iɉa] int. interjection to express repugnance
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. iza span>
[imi iɁhɨɁ] v. oversleep; sleep longer than intended
[ĩɉó-mɨɉó] n. wage; earning
[ĩpó] v. cross; pass by
[ɉarpĩ] v. hysteria; sickness caused by the spirit of a dead person
[ɉeɁmeɁ] adj. flat; deflatted
[ɉáa] v. soar or fly without flapping the wings (as a hawk)
[kami-kami] adv. in front of one’s eye
[kaù] v. envy; begrudge
[koku dɨru] adj. bulky; oversized; massive; cumbersome
[kompjutar] n. computer
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: or. English span>
[kone abiɁ] pron. everyone
[kooló] n. iliac crest
[koŋ kolò] n. four days back
[kormu] n. grasshopper var. kurmu
[lã] v. move (esp. of head)
[leɁta] v. spread, as wing
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. le’tvr span>
[li lilã] n. cicada (Cicadidae)
[lopo] n. half day
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: ant. lobyañ span>
[lɨpi] v. wash or clean the feet
[mida] n. a part of marriage ceremony
[mɨgã] n. feathers of cock, usually of its tail
[mɨgĩ] adj. beneficial; profitable, of works
[nakú] n. uncle, esp. maternal (term of address)
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. aku span>
[paʎi] v. patch; patch on; stitch up; repair
[paroɁ roɁnɨ] n. hen
[paroɁ jo] n. chicken (meat)
[parsĩ] n. red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus)
[pataɁ] n. bamboo split; flat object
[patɨ rĩbi] n. a variety of spider
[paxuɁ] n. partridge
[pimpù] n. tiffin; light meal; small amount of food item (esp. for offering to deities)
[purò] adj. big (of spherical objects)
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: ant. puzó span>
[pɨʎi] num. four
[pɨgo] n. matter; subject; affair
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. hago span>
[pɨgja gjapúu] n. wreathed hornbill (Aceros undulatus)
[pɨra] adj. infertile (of egg)
[pjoɁsu] v. brush one’s teeth
[pù] v. hatch (an egg)
[rilo] v. throw something downwards
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: ant. rica span>
[ronɨ] n. madman; lunatic; maniac
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. runw span>
[santú paju] n. a variety of resin used as glue obtained from a jungle berry
[sardĩ] n. short-cut
[sarɨ] n. knot (of tree); nodule; node
[sã] v. push or stuff something
[sitãpa] adv. like this; this way
[takoɁ] n. dirt
Speaker: Tage Numpi
[taxoɁ] v. disagree; disobey
[tã] v. drink; smoke
[tiɁpaɁ] v. erase; wipe off; rub out
[tor] v. unfurl (of flag); spread
[tõsǝr] v. advise; suggest; counsel; guide
[tumbu ude] n. tent
[tur] v. be alive
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: var. tor span>
[tɨdɨ] adj. short
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: ant. wbyo’ span>
[xeɲiɁ] n. temple
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: var. xeñji’ span>
[jadĩ] n. storage basket of bamboo or cane
[jahĩ] adj. rotten (esp. of wood)
[áakò] n. entrance; entry; door
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: var. háakò span>
[úì] n. spirit; god; devil
[úì bar] v. a variety of chanting during a particular ritual