Apatani English

[aarí] n. saw

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Hindi

[abjo] adv. endearingly; fondly; affectionately

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ací-baró] n. brothers; siblings

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. ací-búrù

[ahi daktor] n. dentist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ahi ácì] n. toothache

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aháa baɁ] v. hate; loathe; abhor

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amĩ] adj. ripe; cooked

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amí-abã] n. elders

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bar] v. carry something with a horizontal bar or a rod

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[batĩ] n. hedge; cattle barricade designed for humans to climb over it

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[beɁhu] adj. spongy; springy; cushiony; resilient

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[biɉe biiɲiɁ] n. small sized bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨdã] n. precipice; cliff

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨraɁ] adj. mellow (of taste)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cãtɨ] n. earth

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cibjɨ] adj. smart; quick; agile

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byací

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dacã pɨcã] n. metallic pot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dãxo-paɁɲì] n. weapon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dor] v. become a captive or a prisoner

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ga] v. scold; rebuke; reprimand;chide

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: la.wav?

[goɁ] v. measure with outstretched thumb and finger

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gɨɉu-gɨmjo] n. dress; dressing style

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. gwju

[gjaasi] n. mother’s mother’s brother’s patrilines; portion of the meat traditionally offered to such relations

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[haɁ] v. bite off

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[heɁi] n. a portion of meat

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hirã] n. molar tooth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hokoda] n. in that case; that being so; then

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huɲi] n. pestle

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hárgɨ] v. run away; escape; flee

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. hágw

[iɉuɁ] n. weak; coward

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ĩci] v. reach

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉiʎũ] n. Indian strawberry (Potentilla indica)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. jifiñ

[kadi] v. stare; gaze; ogle

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaŋu] v. differentiate; distinguish; tell apart

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koŋ] num. one

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kõda] n. tommorow morning

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kumur] n. grasshopper

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. kurmu

[kut tarɨ] n. coat

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[kɨɉĩ] v. stretch on tiptoe

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kɨri harnɨ] n. businessman; broker; agent; middleman

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. kwri du’nw

[laɁta] v. open the hand; unclench the fist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laama] adj. few; not many

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ice

[lãcã] adj. red

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lãpĩ] n. nape of the neck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[leju] n. a small path leading to a village

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨgeɁ] n. popliteal space; hollow of the knee

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨɨbũ] n. unnatural death, of a woman

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mixɨ ronɨ] n. a person possessed by spirit

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mixw runw

[more] n. forest

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[murù] n. torch; flambeau

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨko-mɨpe] v. disrupt; distract; disturb

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨpĩ] v. close

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mwpyañ

[mɨŋó] n. unfinished task; remaining work

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨsɨ] n. task; things to do

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nãkoɁ] v. push open

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[objoɁ] adj. long

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. wbyo’; ba’so var. orbyo’

[paɉaɁ] adj. torn; tattered

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. paja’ paya’

[paxɨ] v. kill by cutting

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paxɨɁ] v. cut to break or fracture bones in a piece of meat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pĩcuɁ] n. bottle; elongated liquid container made from the hard hollowed and dried skin of gourd

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[po] v. weave

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨʎi] num. four

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjapúu] n. early maturing variety of rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[párxɨ] v. twist; spin; twirl

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋunu] pron. we; first person plural pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[raɁtĩ] v. fasten (as of a door)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[raɉi] n. plastic

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rasó] v. position lengthwise

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. rapw

[riilaɁ] n. tendril

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[riɲo gjadu] n. rings of bamboo splits that are hoisted with poles in the tombs of priests

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rũtì] v. crouch with heads lowered

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãcí] n. a variety of fruit

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dwrañ sañxañ

[sãɉe] n. timber; wood

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãxɨɁ] adj. retarded growth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sorɉoɁ] adj. elongated; straighten out

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[suʎu] adj. empty (of feeling)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨcã] n. earth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɉǝr] n. a species of bamboo

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tali jordu] n. a variety of chili

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tarɉĩ] v. straighten

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: ant. tarki’

[taruɁ] n. ant

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tarò] v. listen secretly; eavesdrop

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taxoɁ] v. disagree; disobey

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[toɁ] v. descend; go down; climb down

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tuuma] adj. courageous; daring

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tù] v. flood

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[umjú] adj. pointed (as of a tip)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[une] n. wound

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɨŋa] n. baby

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɨrɨ] v. fumigate rodents in their holes with smoke

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xaci] n. ceiling rack for storing meat

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. yo bade; bade

[xei áʎò] n. cinnamon bark

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xoɁ] v. pry open

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jamu mɨʎo] n. flame

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[japũ genɨ̃] n. thunder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲibjoɁ] v. get free (as from a taboo period)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì ácì] v. dive inside water

Speaker: Tage Kanno