Apatani English

[abúr] adj. unlucky; unfortunate; jinxed; ill-fated

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. abú;

[aʎĩ] n. evening; dusk; late afternoon

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[akì] n. dog

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[akì taxɨ] n. flea

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Dialect: var. akì twxè

[alíi] n. seed; descendant; progeny; successor

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[apjũ] n. bunch; cluster

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[arũ] adv. near; close by

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[bɨlĩ kormo] n. a variety of fruit

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[bjaakã] n. space underneath the house

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[cãtɨ] n. earth

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ciɁ] v. hold (with both arms)

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[cicĩ] n. a variety of ritual (esp. to ward off malevolent spirit)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. twgò

[cixɨ-cixo] n. a variety of bird; black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[dalĩ] n. path made by a hunter; hunting track

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. dwliñ

[dodĩ-dolo] n. world; realm

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. doha-dolo

[duɁ] v. offer something for sale; market

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[dɨlĩ] n. path made by a hunter; hunting track

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Dialect: var. daliñ

[dɨru] adj. tasteless; unpleasant to eat

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Dialect: ant. dwpyò

[dùusa] v. sit at a distance

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[ʎaɁ] v. burn; singe; smolder

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[ʎãso] n. metallic skewer

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ufañ kuti

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎòobó] v. jump across

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[garu] n. pillow

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. diñ nanw

[genɨ nã] v. blame someone else for one’ own mistake

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[gubuɁ] adj. hot; warm

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Dialect: ant. laxw’

[haho] prep. up; top; high; upper

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[horci] adj. smart; agile

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɉã lɨhaɁ] n. small cane basket used as the container of food contributed during birth of a newborn by the mother’s mother

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ita] n. brick

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[ɉeɁɉeɁ] adj. soft due to cooking too much

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉiɉi kɨna] adj. bluish

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[kado-lili] adv. publicly; in everybody’s full view

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[kaɉiɁ] adj. good to look at; good

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[kako jalo] n. mirror

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Dialect: syn. kvrv talo; kako talo; kvlo talo, kwrv talo

[karbjã] adj. full (of the moon)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. harbyañ

[kosiɁ koʎi] adv. wriggle restlessly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨle pemu] n. a variety of flowering plant that grows on the banks of the river

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kwle peñbu

[lorɨɁ] n. joint

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Dialect: syn. lwrw lorw’

[miɁbeɁ] v. blink; wink

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[milobo] n. male

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Dialect: ant. zimw

[mogo alló] n. cheekbone

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[mombati] n. candle

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[mopla] n. muffler

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Dialect: or. English

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

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[mɨtú] n. half burned firewood

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[mjã] v. name

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[mò aɲi] pron. they (two); third person dual pronoun

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[nami] n. portion of village, esp. the upper one

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. nako

[o pɨɲu] n. bamboo spoon used while cooking millet for preparation of liquor

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[oɲiɁ-rɨɲiɁ] adj. cute; small and beautiful

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[pahĩ] n. liver

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[pamɨɁ] v. cut or chop into small pieces

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[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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[patɨ rĩbi] n. a variety of spider

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[pẽ] v. bequeath

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Dialect: var. piñ

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

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[pilã kamo] adj. dark yellow

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[pisǝr] v. kill by cutting the throat

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[pohiɁ] v. caress; pet; fondle; stroke

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Dialect: syn. pohi’-poso etym. po (hug) + hi’ (frisk)

[poli-poli] adv. rapidly; swiftly

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[poorò] adj. big, of cylinderical objects

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Dialect: ant. poozó

[pɨʎe] num. four

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Dialect: etym. pwfi + he

[pɨʎi] num. four

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[pjarmo] n. feathers, usually of leaves, of an arrow; fletching

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[pjoɁsu] v. brush one’s teeth

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[pì] v. divine an omen by examining an egg

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[raʎúpjala] adj. absentminded; forgetful; distracted

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[rako] n. tortoise

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Dialect: var. rwko syn. samiñ rako

[sabɨ] n. officer; a dignified person

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[saleɁ] adj. raw, as of wood; standing wood

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[santú tero] n. a variety of wild pepper

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[sati] n. umbrella

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Dialect: Or. Assamese

[sãbɨ] n. branch, of a tree

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Dialect: syn. sanw aha’

[sikũ-siri] adj. wrinkled; crinkled

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[some] n. bamboo shavings used as an element of altar as well as for decoration

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Dialect: syn. jompu

[sopĩ] n. lizard

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[sor] v. complain; protest

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[sosma] n. goggle

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[sumu] adj. giddy; dizzy; vertiginous

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Dialect: syn. jiimú

[supũ] n. world

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[sɨdó] n. heifer

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[sɨxaɁ] v. scratch; scrape; abrade

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[sɨjĩ] n. a variety of carnivorous animal

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[tageɁ] v. listen attentively

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taiɁ sɨtĩ] n. epileptic fit

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[taɉu-rijã] n. variety of a plant; Job’s tear

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[taxóo] n. a variety of fern

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[taɲó] adj. small in number; few in numbers

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Dialect: syn. tozó ant. tarò

[tãxɨ̃] v. get drunk

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[teli] n. oil

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[tɨrɨ] n. forehead

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[tɨɨ] v. throw; toss; fling

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[táa] v. paw; move the hands in a rapid pawing motion, as when digging away soil

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[uuɲó] adj. small (of hole)

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Dialect: ant. uurò

[xeɁlĩ] v. take off; uncover

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Dialect: ant. xe’lw’

[xuu] adj. old

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[ɲime-jaru] n. rainbow

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[álì] v. plant

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[ĩsi] dem. that (demonstrative)

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