Apatani English

[aalú] n. potato or. Assamese

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byayuñ

[aarǝ] n. portion of lower limb of an animal

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[abba-bãkũ] n. great-grandfather

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[abjo] adv. endearingly; fondly; affectionately

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎú] v. lose something; misplace

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[agoo imiɁ] n. hearth towards the front of the house

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[akì amù] n. dog’s hair

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[akì kíicú] n. puppy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alì arã] n. bottom; base; lower part

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amiɁ] v. extinguish; douse; put out (fire)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. mwmi’

[anɨ] n. leaf

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. yanw

[asoo] n. party; group; gang; supporter

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axáa tajú] adj. mature; elderly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aja] adj. good; beautiful; virtuous; righteous; suitable; appropriate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ajú] n. traditional ballad usually sang by the males as competition or simple narration

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[barbo-ʎibo] n. wife’s sister’s husband (term of reference)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[botoli] n. bottle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[bɨɲiɁ-bɨɲa] adj. silky; delicate; soft

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bwza-bwza

[bjuhu] n. grave; tomb

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjuu] v. suck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daɁʎa] v. wait (standing); halt; pause

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[damu] n. wooden digging stick used as an agricultural implement

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dar] v. break (as a stick); crack; snap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[datɨ mida] n. mida of greater variety

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. daci mida

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. dorzó

[dulu] n. the system of giving another person the responsibility of looking after a cattle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨpjò] adj. tasty, to eat

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. dwrúu

[dù] v. dig; excavate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[embĩ] n. uncooked, husked rice

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ʎeɁbe] n. larva of water beetle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bukofe’be

[gaɁsǝr] v. strangle with hand

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gaiɁ] v. sing

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[ganda] n. country; land

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gõcì] n. dragonfly

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. koñcì

[haɁtú] v. obstruct; block; clog

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haaci] n. east

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dazi cago

[haaʎĩ patã] n. labor gang engaged in transplanting of paddy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hai] n. water

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. yasi

[hurtaɁ] n. wooden board used for filtering rice water from the cooking pot

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɉã apĩ] n. food contributed when a newborn baby is born

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨraɁ] adv. again; once more

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hárgɨ] v. run away; escape; flee

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. hágw

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. ice

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ixã] n. trophy for recognition of achievement

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉomɨɁ] n. cloud

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kahiɁ-kaso] v. look after; take care

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kamra] n. room

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[koɁ] v. pry; move or open something or to separate something from something else with force

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kociɁ hamã] n. dandelion (Taraxacum sp.); Lit. bitter vegetable

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kooʎã] adj. round

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. koofo’

[kɨlè] n. tobacco leaves, esp. fresh ones

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. muku

[lalala] conj. then; and then

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[loɲãdà] n. two years hence

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[milobo] n. male

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. zimw

[misi] n. title used for dead females

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. mikiñ

[misĩ] n. machine

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[mɨceɁ] v. interfere; obstruct; impede

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨsiɁ] v. take one’s turn in doing something

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨjã] n. crest on the head of cock

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjã] v. name

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nunuka] pron. your (plural)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nunupa] pron. for you (plural); second person plural pronoun, purpostive case

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[oho búu] v. give birth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ohó] adj. tall; high

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pakã] v. defer or postpone

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pẽ] v. mature; come of age; be full-grown

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pĩciɁ] n. mouse

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pohaɁ] n. crow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. puha’

[pɨɉe] n. June; seventh lunar month of the year

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨluɁ pɨleɁ] adj. showy; flashy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨtì] adj. near

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. kucì

[pjaɁ] v. splash; throw (water)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋɨra] n. variety of a migratory fish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[reɁke abja] n. ladder leading to the ceiling

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. re’ke re’bya

[ri] v. read

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: Or. Assamese

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨɨ] v. buy; purchase

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. pyu’

[saŋ] n. cot; bed

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[siĩbo] n. large-sized larvae of dragonfly

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tasiñ siñbo

[sɨsida] adv. now

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨɨ ixa] n. cow dung

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sár] v. rip; tear

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tamjó] adj. a color pattern of a mithun, of black colour but a white patch running from the head to the tail at the back

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tapeɁ] n. leech

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. twpe’

[tariɁ] n. body odor

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tur] v. be alive

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. tor

[turlaɁ] n. glass

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. tùla’

[ubúu] n. hole

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xǝǝ] letter name x the letter representing x in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨpaɁ] v. subtract

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨɨnɨ̃] adj. cooked

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jorbɨ] n. uphill

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jorxã] n. Sichuan pepper

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. yorxuñ

[ɲaaɲiɁ aruɁ] n. honeycomb

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲiɁxã] num. twenty

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[ácì-ahè] n. ailment; suffering

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[óòpa] v. find something by hoeing

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì ácì] v. dive inside water

Speaker: Tage Kanno