Apatani English

[aʎóo kõsò] n. mantis

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aiɁ] adj. miser; mean

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[aɉí] n. farm; wet agricultural field

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amu] n. yield; production; quantity (crop)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aníi] n. fruit bud

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apɨ-asó] n. area; dimension

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arò daʎi] n. forenoon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bahũ] adv. vomiting tendency; retch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bai-bala] adj. haughty; contemptous; disparaging

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[baro-maɲã] n. traditional friends (esp. of other community or of far away places)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[buʎã] n. traditional village council of the Apatanis

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[buulì] n. variety of rats seen after bamboo flowering in large numbers

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨɲã] n. last year

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ceɁ] v. cut (as with scissor)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cudu-cubo] adj. imprudent; reckless

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[diì] v. detach; peel

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[do] v. be; exist; lie

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. zima

[dotɨ] n. sky

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. mwdóo; yapuñ

[dɨho-luho] adj. offending

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨlɨ kɨce] n. bamboo glass for measuring rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨrɨ] adj. late; delayed

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[eɁdaɁ] v. shoot at target

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. e’xa’

[eem] int. yes

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gaɁɉeɁ] v. soften something by grasping repeatedly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[golu] v. lie

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gɨɨɲó] adj. small (of a basket)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gwwrò

[gjalĩ] v. seep; exude; ooze

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hago] n. matter; subject; affair

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pwgo

[heŋaɁ] v. be worried about something

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heru] adj. sad; unhappy

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: etym. heñ + ru

[hoi] v. be; happen

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[hubo-hulo] adj. almost; roughly equal

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

[iʎĩ] n. rectum

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ĩbò] v. follow; go along with somebody

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ĩci] v. reach

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉoo] v. pay as wage

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kacǝr] v. see meticulously

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaʎã́] adj. equal; same

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[kapako he] adv. everywhere

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[koɁ] v. to divine an omen by examining a chicken liver

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kúcì] adj. near

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁpã] n. wooden community platform usually belonging to a clan

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laŋe] num. hundred

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[lumur] v. speak wrongly; say something by mistake

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lurɨɁ] v. converse; talk

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨpi] v. wash or clean the feet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mepi] n. a variety of vegetable; plantain (Plantago erosa)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mepi hamañ

[miɁla] n. tear

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miɉiɁ] n. one well versed in traditional literature

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: etym. ami’ (eye) + áfò (skin)

[miɉiɁ lãcu] n. Adam’s apple

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[miɉí] n. orphan

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mijí atúu

[muɁ] v. blow (air)

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[mɨbo] v. help (in doing some work); assist; support

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨbju] v. contaminate (esp. liquids)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨniɁ] v. Injure a bit while doing something

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mjobju] n. earthquake

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. myobu hu’nwñ

[mjogu] v. migrate; relocate; resettle

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjokũ] n. ritual performed for the well-being of plants

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nakó] n. portion of village (esp. the lower one)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. nami

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. nako

[niti] adj. new

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[no ho] pron. where

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨmopa] pron. why

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. nwmpa syn. nwtepa

[oho búu] v. give birth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[papù] n. egg

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[par] v. crawl under something; creep; wriggle

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[parɨ] v. rotate

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[pĩtú nanɨ] n. an element of loin loom

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨro] n. basket of splitted bamboo used for storage

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pju] v. move to and fro (esp. a post)

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[pìtaɁ] v. slap; spank; hit; strike

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[raʎúpjala] adj. absentminded; forgetful; distracted

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saã] v. grow; live

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saʎó] n. a variety of tree; Fragrant Himalayan Champaka (Michelia champaca)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sarse] n. millet

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[sisa] n. glass

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Hindi

[sudu] n. bamboo container

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨbũ] n. sheep

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨlo] n. today

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[sɨɨ hɨbo] n. ox

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨɨ lutɨ] n. grazing ground

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sù] v. rear; breed; bring up; nurture

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɁxeɁ] v. lie supine

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tahĩ] n. mushroom

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[takĩ] n. cowrie shell

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. takiñ za’co

[tamaɁ] n. a variety of tree

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tarpĩ] n. maggots

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tasĩ siĩbo] n. large-sized larvae of dragonfly

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. siñbo

[tẽ] v. keep in place; place something

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[to] v. pour

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Dialect: syn. tii

[xapaɁ] v. scrape something off

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[japĩ] n. nose

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[japũ genɨ̃] n. thunder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲapaɁ] v. criticize; disapprove

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲoxe] n. black panther (Panthera pardus)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ácì] n. pain; suffering

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[óò] v. till (with spade); dig; plow

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì subu] n. yak (Bos grunniens)

Speaker: Tage Kanno