Apatani English

[abjóo] n. headgear of a priest made of woven cloth

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[aci takǝr] n. star

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[agjã] n. ritual altar of the Apatanis

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[ahi daktor] n. dentist

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[alló] n. bone

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[aláa] n. juice, broth

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[ama] n. mother (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ane

[amĩ] adj. docile; obedient; sumbissive; deferential

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Dialect: ant. aliñ

[amu] n. hair

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[anɨ̀] n. mother (term of reference)

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[apaɁ] v. to give up; to let go

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. opa’

[arí] n. price; cost; charge

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[ate] n. elder brother (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axɨ] n. guts; entrails; viscera

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[beɁce] v. crack; split; rapture

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[bɨpɨɁ tabú] n. a variety of poisonous snake (Pareas monticola)

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[cibjɨ] adj. smart; quick; agile

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Dialect: syn. byací

[coga-coga] adv. waddling; manner of walking with short steps and swaying motion

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[corɉĩ] adj. straight

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[daɲi áago] n. west

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Dialect: syn. haatw

[diɉeɁ] n. portable bamboo vessel (esp. for carrying liquor)

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Dialect: syn. didu

[dobɨ-takǝr alo] n. Thursday

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[doorò] adj. big (of an animal or vehicle)

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Dialect: ant. dorzó

[du] v. drip (of water)

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[dɨmɨ nanɨ] n. side dish

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[dɨpjoɁ] v. eat something to add taste to a meal

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[dáa] v. take step; pace; tread

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[ẽtɨ patã] n. labor gang for paddy harvesting

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ẽtɨ pǝrǝ] n. large cane mat used for temporary storage of harvested paddy in the field

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[gjapja-gjasa] v. spread by throwing

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gju-gjuro] n. trachea

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[gjàa] v. cut, with an inward motion of the blade

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[haʎã] adj. flat; plain

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. haapa

[harlã] n. thigh

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiɉeɁ] n. portable bamboo vessel (esp. for carrying liquor)

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. dije’

[hipja] n. front teeth; incisor

Speaker: Nani Anga

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

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huã alló] n. backbone

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. hoañ alló

[humi] pron. whom

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨmi] pron. that; third person accusative pronoun

Speaker: Nani Anga

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. ice

[imiɁ] n. sitting space around the traditional fireplace

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[ɉeɁta] adj. flattened

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[ɉoɉuru] n. a fruit bearing creeper (Silene sp.)

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[kakĩ] v. show; display; exhibit

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[kapanɨ he] adv. everything

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Dialect: syn. amánw he

[kapi] v. eat up; finish eating

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[kapjó] adj. first

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[kaŋu-kare] v. discriminate; be biased against; be prejudiced against

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[keɁke] adj. saturated; strong, of taste; thick

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[kẽte] n. quilt (traditionally made of several pieces of sewn-together fabric)

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[kóo] v. move the hips, as when closing a door with the hands full or bumping against someone

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[lalĩ] n. footprint

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[luhɨɁ] v. stammer; stutter

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[luutɨ] n. grazing ground; pasture; meadow

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[luxaɁ] v. speak wrongly

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Dialect: syn. lugya’

[lɨguɁ] n. incubating hen

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[lɨpiɁ] n. numbness of the limbs

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[medǝr] n. purification; purification ritual

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[medǝr agjã] n. altar for purification ritual

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[Misã bjako] n. yellow berried nightshade (Solanum xanthocarpum)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. swtw byako

[mɨmó] v. use or spend a portion

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mwpiñ

[mɨpiɁ] v. break something fragile like an egg

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[mɨsɨ] n. task; things to do

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[mɨtú] n. half burned firewood

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[mjɨ-milo] n. married couple

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[nɨɁ] v. prick; stab

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[nɨtãpà] pron. how

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[papù] n. egg

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[parĩ] adj. combination of two or more colors

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[paroɁ pabjaɁ] n. young chicken

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Dialect: var. paro’ pwbya

[paroɁhe] n. measure worth of a hen or paddy in a paro’ yagw; three persons which was the number of laborers hired with a hen or paro’ yagw full of paddy

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[paxo] n. narrow channel in the wet rice cultivation fields

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Dialect: syn. he’te’

[pixu] n. spinning node

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[pĩciɁ] n. mouse

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[potĩ] n. an element of loin loom

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[põcuɁ] adj. narrow

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[pjuɁnɨ] n. seller

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[rĩbi tasũ] n. spider web

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[sãgo] n. life

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[sãsũ] adj. weedy

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[sembo] n. a variety of wild cherry

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Dialect: var. semo

[tabè] n. a variety of tree of palm family, the trunk of which is edible

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[tape hamã] n. vegetable of pumpkin leaves

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[tapũ] n. bat

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[taú] n. descriptive term for mithun bull with color pattern of dark brown color with while in the lower parts of the limbs

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[túhɨ-túxeɁ] v. kick to and fro with the limb

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[uurò] adj. big (of hole) ant. uuzó

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[ɨdo] n. stalk

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Dialect: var. ado

[ɨtɨ rɨbɨ] n. bamboo shoot

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Dialect: syn. behé, byapu’, wtw bwrw

[xoɁ] v. crow (as a cock)

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[jadĩ] n. storage basket of bamboo or cane

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[jalã] n. stone

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[jorxã] n. Sichuan pepper

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Dialect: syn. yorxuñ

[ɲalĩ] v. put one’s head out; peep out

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[ɲĩpǝr] n. nipple

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[ɲoxe] n. black panther (Panthera pardus)

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[áɉùu] n. appearance; image

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[ámì] n. tail

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[árbì] n. portion of pork offered to wife’s eldest living sister

Speaker: Tage Kanno