Apatani English

[aci takǝr] n. star

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[aʎiɁ] n. pig

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[aháa ahɨɁ] v. forget; fail to remember

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[aĩ] n. gold

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[akã ɲacú] n. lower lip

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[akì asiɁ] n. kennel; shelter for a dog

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[alì innánɨ] n. stilt; pair of pole equipped with footrest to enable a person to walk at a height from the ground

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[ama] n. mother (term of address)

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Dialect: syn. ane

[apa-ama] adj. simple; artless; guileless; innocent

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[atɨɁ] v. keep; store; retain; hold on to

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[barde] n. cane basket used for distilling rice/millet beer

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[barɉuɁ] n. netted cane basket for everyday use

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[baro-maɲã] n. traditional friends (esp. of other community or of far away places)

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[beɁce] v. crack; split; rapture

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[beɁpaɁ-beɁjaɁ] adj. reckless; impulsive; impetuous

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[behe] n. bamboo shoot

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Dialect: syn. byapu’, wtw rwbw, wtw bwrw

[bilã abíi] n. Red and white Apatani traditional skirt

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[bóì] n. track made by large game

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[carxɨ] v. boil properly; boil fully

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[ciɁpɨ] n. frame of the bamboo sliding door

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[cogĩ] v. squat; crouch

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[dãsò] n. spear with long handle

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[dɨbe] v. eat to heart’s content; eat so much one cannot eat any more

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[dùusa] v. sit at a distance

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[ʎiɁla] n. the legs of the pigs sacrificed during Myoko which are usually presented to the cousins

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[gorxã] n. armpit; underarm

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[gɨɨrò] adj. big (of a basket)

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Dialect: ant. gwwzó

[haaso] adj. slow; sluggish

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[haatĩ bɨlĩ] adv. satisfactorily; confidently; convincingly

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[haaja] adj. hungry; famished; starving

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[hã] v. investigate; make enquiries; probe; enquire

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[heʎa] v. have patience; have endurance

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[hemĩ-hẽɉa] adj. intimate; open (of relationship)

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[hẽɉu] n. attitude; way of thinking

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[hẽɉu-hemjo] n. character; disposition; temperament

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[hixuɁ] n. wet fermented bamboo shoot

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[huʎu] n. bamboo javelin

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[háa] v. smoke dry

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[iɉa] int. interjection to express repugnance

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Dialect: syn. iza

[iɉuɁ] n. weak; coward

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[iju] n. anus

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Dialect: syn. koyu

[ɉalo] conj. although; even if; or

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[ɉiɉepa] adv. really; genuinely; honestly

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[kacĩ] v. recognize; know

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Dialect: syn. kala’

[kamè] v. finish; destroy

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[keɁba] v. put cloth on somebody

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[kẽte puʎe] n. a variety of shawl usually made by stitching togethe discarded clothes

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[kone] num. one

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[kopaɁ] v. throw away (from the mouth)

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[kukuʎu hamã] n. a variety of wild vegetable (Artemisia indica)

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[kupjuɁ] v. rinse (esp. a container like a pot)

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Dialect: syn. kupyu’ kusvr

[laɁhe] v. beckon by waving the hand

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[lalala] conj. then; and then

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[lobú] n. a part of loin loom

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[lopa] n. stick, usually used for beating

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Dialect: syn. pa’zi

[lɨci] n. left (leg)

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[lɨgju] n. claw

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[lɨɨbũ] n. unnatural death, of a woman

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[miilò] n. eighth lunar month of the year; July-August

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Dialect: syn. miilò pwlò

[Misã] n. common term for non-Apatani tribes like Nyishis, Tagins, Galos, etc.

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[misì] adj. old woman

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[mɨdù] n. time for doing something

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[mɨɉo] n. reward for doing something; wage

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[mɨpjò] adj. easy (to do); good to do

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[nɨɁrɨɁ] v. run into somebody

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[nɨji] n. an element of loin loom

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[papù paxu] n. egg shell

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[pasù] n. needle

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[piɁ] v. sharpen; hone; whet

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Dialect: var. apì

[Pinɨ] n. Creator

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[pɨɁpaɁ] v. sweep away

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[pɨʎe] num. four

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Dialect: etym. pwfi + he

[pɨʎiɁ] n. hut in the paddy fields or jungle

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[ŋɨʎã xɨko hamã] n. a variety of vegetable; centella; gotu kola (Centella asiatica)

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[reɁbja] n. ladder

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Dialect: syn. abya

[reɁke reɁbja] n. ladder leading to the ceiling

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Dialect: syn. re’ke abya

[riilaɁ] n. ray (of sun); beam

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[rui] n. ear wax

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Dialect: syn. yarú rui

[rɨko] n. a variety of hardy perennial creeper; sweet tea vine (Gynostemma pentaphyllum)

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[ríipĩ] v. close something by stitching or sewing

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

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[sorɉĩ] v. stretch straight; straighten out

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[sɨɨ lutɨ] n. grazing ground

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[tako-laro] n. variety of a hard stone

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[Tanɨ agũ] n. Apatani language

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[tapã] n. algae; moss

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[tapã-kara alo] n. Tuesday

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[tarɉi] n. scorpion; centipede

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[tau jamu] n. firefly

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[telɨɁ] v. push something in by finger

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Dialect: ant. teliñ etym. teñ + alw’

[tusǝr] v. straighten one’s leg

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[tɨlo] v. drop something from a height

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[ulu-bjalu] adj. messy; unappetizing

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Dialect: syn. byurw-byarw

[uro] adv. forcefully; strongly

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[xaarũ agjã] n. altars for the xaruñ god

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[xirki] n. window

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[jamuɁ] adj. ashy (color)

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[jo asóo] n. strips of smoke preserved pork

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[jorbɨ] n. uphill

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[ɲatu] n. resting place

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