Apatani English

[aarda] n. tomorrow

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[acĩ] pron. group; crowd

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Dialect: var. atañ

[ahu ará] adj. naked; nude; undressed

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apaɁ] v. to give up; to let go

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. opa’

[axóo] n. head; leader; principal

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bejũ] n. tomato; potato

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. byayuñ

[biilo] adj. long ago; bygone; erstwhile

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bulũ-bɨle] adj. sickly, unappetizing var. bwluñ-bwle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. bwluñ-bwle

[buutɨ] n. community; society

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

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

[báa] v. roll; spin; rotate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bíi] v. cascade; flow (as water)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[caaŋeɁ-caaŋeɁ] adj. intense; stinging

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[dã] v. beat (with a stick)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dempjo] n. mouse

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dilĩ] n. hair bun; tresses of bundled hair

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[doolã] adj. brownish

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[dɨri] n. purchase of food in times of scarcity or in anticipation of scarcity

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[embĩ xãcu] n. cane or bamboo basket used as rice container

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[empɨ] n. paddy husk

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. pwnañ

[ʎo] v. jump

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[golu pakaɁ] n. dimple on the cheek

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gorá] n. a section of Apatani village council

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gjoɁ] v. call; hail

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gjuɲã] n. ritual performed to appease a malevolent spirit

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. twgò

[haaʎĩ] adj. beautiful; handsome; pretty

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haago] adj. vain; haughty; vainglorious

Speaker: Nani Anga

[haaru] n. mourning; grief

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[huɁbĩ] v. sweat

Speaker: Nani Anga

[háa] v. smoke dry

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉiʎũ] n. Indian strawberry (Potentilla indica)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. jifiñ

[ɉokoɁ] v. opening something by lifting up the lid jopyañ

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉuɲa] adj. wet

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Dialect: ant. pitañ syn. juja

[kedu] n. an agricultural implement of short wooden digging stick used to make holes for planting paddy or millet

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[keemɨɁ] v. crush by rubbing

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[koʎũ] n. primordial time

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Dialect: syn. kofuñ kolo

[laɁci alaɁ] n. left hand

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[leɁca] n. cane havershack covered with fibres from the bark of a particular tree worn during jungle expeditions or during war-related rituals

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[luʎe] v. slur one’s speech as when drunk

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[luti] v. say again; repeat speaking; reiterate; restate

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[lɨbiɁ] n. right (leg)

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[ma] int. no; exclamation for negative response (esp. to a request or order)

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[mataɁ] adj. flat

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Dialect: syn. me’ta’

[miɁɉǝr] n. a variety of tiny fly; midge

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. taru mi’jvr

[mula] n. radish

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[mɨciɁ] v. hurt the eye

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[mɨɉo] n. reward for doing something; wage

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[mɨlù-mɨle] v. disturb

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[mɨpur] v. break something

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[mɨpjã] v. close

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Dialect: syn. mwpiñ

[mɨriɁ] v. initiate doing something

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[mɨxɨɁ] v. sprain

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[mja] v. lull; console

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mò] pron. he; she; third person singular pronoun

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[o xuiɁ hamã] n. a variety of vegetable; creeping woodsorrel (Oxalis corniculata)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[oho gɨ] v. be pregnant

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[pageɁ] v. light a fire; set fire; ignite

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[paroɁ] n. chicken; fowl

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[parsĩ] n. red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus)

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pɨdĩ xotu] n. metal skewer for hair knot

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pɨɉo] post. a moment ago

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[pjaɁmĩ] adj. orange color

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[ŋunu] pron. we; first person plural pronoun

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[rimjoɁ-riso] adj. striped; streaked; variegated

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Dialect: syn. ripó-rilo

[roŋe] adv. once; one time

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[rugu] v. take care of security; guard

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[saɁpo] v. be confident; underestimate; underrate; confident

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Dialect: var. sa’pu

[sabɨ] n. officer; a dignified person

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[sarsɨɁ] adj. bland; insipid; weak (of liquor)

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[sãkó] n. a kind of fruit

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[selɨ] v. pull something in

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[sĩbja] n. balcony in a traditional house

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Dialect: var. simbya

[sɨbjó] n. flying squirrel

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Dialect: syn. swcí

[sɨʎĩ daʎi] n. this afternoon; towards this evening

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taabjó] n. a temporary hut

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tacì] n. crab

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[tali jordu] n. a variety of chili

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tariɁ] n. fern

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[tarpi] n. variety of cane

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[taxɨɁ] n. head louse

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[tor] v. unfurl (of flag); spread

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[tuleɁ] adj. slippery

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Dialect: syn. bwle’

[tuupo] n. a plant whole upper portion has been removed

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[ɨɨ] letter name w ɯɯ the letter representing ɯ in the Apatani alphabet

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[ɨpɨɁ nanɨ] n. broom

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[xugjuɁ] n. funnel shaped cane or bamboo distiller

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[xɨ] v. cost; value

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[xɨlã] n. a variety of red-brown squirrel

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[ja] n. nephew (term of address)

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[jai] n. variety of bamboo (Dendrocalamus hamiltonii)

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[japĩ ái] n. epistaxis; bleeding from the nose

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[japũ genɨ̃] n. thunder

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[japúu] n. a color pattern of mithun with overall while color

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[jaruɁ] n. a variety of plant

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[juu] v. extend (as hand)

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[ɲiɁmo] n. face

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[ɲoɁ] v. to abstain from doing some things during ritual prohibition

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[ĩsi] dem. that (demonstrative)

Speaker: Tage Yassing