Apatani English

[aaxaɁ] adj. shallow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. uuxa’ ant. aarañ

[aci-aʎá] adj. precarious; critical

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alì arã] n. bottom; base; lower part

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ama] n. mother (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ane

[amú] v. to tell a lie

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apǝr] n. gallbladder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aríi] n. border; boundary

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[asĩ] v. feed (esp. liquid food)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ata] n. aunt (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axuɁ] v. regurgitate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aja-kaco] n. quality; condition

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɲĩ ɲĩpǝr] n. nipple

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bortaɁ] n. a variety of snake; cobra var. burta’; sala burta

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. burta’; sala burta

[bɨleɁ] adj. slippery; oily; greasy; slimy

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tule’

[bɨso] adj. afraid; scared; terrified

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[caarò] adj. big (of pot)

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. cazó

[carxɨ] v. boil properly; boil fully

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cãciɁ-doci] adj. nagging; vexatiuos; troublesome (of a person)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ceɁ] v. argue; contend; claim; wrangle

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[danɨ] n. heavy wooden hammer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dapo] n. penalty; prohibition; sanction

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[deɁlo] n. frame of a basket, etc.

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[diiha] n. clay soil

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[diì] v. detach; peel

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dormaa] n. salary; wage

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dorɲó] adj. small (of an animal or a vehicle)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. doorò

[duɁca] adv. get excited; fired up

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[empjaɁ] n. cotton; wool

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. impya’

[ʎiɁdo] n. food for pigs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gja] v. dry (as of liquid)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[haaru hẽ] v. mourn; grieve

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hiɁ] v. paint; apply paint to; white-wash

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[huɁsi-rasi] adj. hot and humid

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huã] n. back (anatomy)

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. hoañ

[hɨɉã lopa] n. a stick presented to a child with developemntal delay by her maternal grandparent

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɲur hamã] n. a variety of vegetable

Speaker: Nani Anga

[háatɨ] adj. hopeful; confident; optimistic

Speaker: Nani Anga

[iɁce] n. a night’s interval

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. ice

[imiɁ] n. sitting space around the traditional fireplace

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉibu garɨ] n. jeep

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[ɉiʎá] n. coarse silk

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉihɨ-ɉixe] v. roll to and fro

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karpjaɁ] v. unroll

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kelaɁ] adv. good in writing; skilled in writing

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koku dɨru] adj. bulky; oversized; massive; cumbersome

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kũ] v. pour, esp. grains from one container to other

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[laakur] v. take back

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[li lilã] n. cicada (Cicadidae)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[loɲì-lohĩ] n. some days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lu] v. speak; talk; converse; articulate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lunù-luna] v. speak in vain

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨgoɁ] n. cracked sole; cracked feet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[marbolu] n. marble

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[miŋo] adj. rich; wealthy; affluent

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. aró

[mixɨ ronɨ] n. a person possessed by spirit

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mixw runw

[mɨdó] n. rain; weather

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨmjó] v. do something in advance

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nar pɨcã] n. earthen pot from the water of which a newborn is bathed for the first time

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nuʎã] n. plain area; level ground

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paɁca] v. toss up

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. pa’lo

[pemiɁ] v. put off (light)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pi] v. slice or saw

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[piɁɲi] num. eight

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[piɁɲi xaŋe] num. eighty

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pila] n. a variety of liquid dish obtained by filtering ashes of particular plants

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pilã rãbã] adj. yellowish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pilã-pisã] adj. light yellow

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨcó] v. make offering to God before food or drink in the form a morsel of rice or a drop of drink

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨgo] n. matter; subject; affair

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. hago

[ŋar] v. laugh; smile

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rãda] n. smoothing plane

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[reɁ] v. cross (a river); traverse; travel across

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[reɁ] v. shave; scrape

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[reɁxaɁ] v. injure by scraping with something

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rupu] n. silver

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. rwpu

[rì aʎĩ] n. the day after tomorrow evening

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sapi] n. a variety of tree

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saŋ] n. cot; bed

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. xaq

[sarɨ] n. teacher

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: Or. English

[sãtũ] n. generation

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[siiɲiɁ] n. small-sized larvae of dragonfly

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tasiñ siizi’

[soxã] n. trophy; memento (esp. of special achievements)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tabjo] n. a species of bamboo (Chimonobambusa callosa)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[talɨ́ mjoko] n. land of the dead who meet with unnatural death

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taŋu] n. bee (in group)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taruɁ] n. ant

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taxɨ tabu] n. bed bug

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tipi] n. thumb impression

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tuuli] n. post; pillar

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨrɨ] n. forehead

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[túpiɁ] v. break something fragile by kicking

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[uskul] n. school

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English syn. wskul

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xeɁ] v. winnow

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xeli] v. play

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xelɨɁ] v. force someone to do something

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[japũ] n. sky

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲa] v. whittle; pare; shave; trim

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. zar

[áttò] n. owner ant. mii

Speaker: Tage Kanno