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[aarã] adj. deep
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. uurañ span>
[abju-ateɁ] n. movement; motion; activity
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: var. abyú-axe’ span>
[aʎã xɨ] num. sixty
Speaker: Tage Kanno
[aʎoo] n. tongue
[agɨ] v. dress; clothe; put on dress
[ahi pyoɁsu] v. brush one’s teeth
[alã] n. neck;hump of an ox; neck of a bottle or a pot
[apjũ] n. bunch; cluster
[arná] v. choke
[artĩ bɨlĩ] n. testicle
[arò-apĩ] n. meal in the morning; breakfast
[axɨɁ-pataɁ] n. ribs, rib cage
[ajo-nano] n. a variety of bee (hover bee)
[bĩpa] n. rope of bamboo skin
[boʎo] adj. thin (of a flat object) ant. byañkvr
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: ant. byañkvr span>
[burù] n. younger brother
[bjáa] v. roast; grill
[dapo pogjã] n. an altar erected during a community penalty or to announce such a penalty
[daɲi cago] n. east
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. haaci span>
[ditǝr] n. lumps of soil (esp. in paddy fields)
[dĩko] n. metal skewer inserted horizontally through the male hair knot
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. pwdiñ xootu span>
[doɉiɁ roɁpo] n. Asian Fairy Bluebird (Irena puella)
[domĩ] adj. cloudy; rainy
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: ant. doqe’ span>
[duɁ] v. throb; beat (as of heart)
[dutĩ] n. wooden block for sitting on
[duxu-paʎo] n. luggage; household articles
[ee] letter name e the letter representing e in the Apatani alphabet
[ema tupe] n. dreamy (of a person); confused person
[ʎaŋa] v. flow in (of water)
[gehe] v. yawn
Speaker: Tage Numpi
[guɁ] v. hatch; sit on or brood eggs
[hẽɉu-mɨɉu] n. behaviour; conduct; deportment
Speaker: Nani Anga
[hiɁ] v. feel; search with hand
[hime] n. child; youngster
[hipja] n. front teeth; incisor
[huʎu] n. bamboo javelin
[hɨɉo] n. a variety of bamboo
[ikóo] n. underside; bottom
[imo] n. paddy
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: var. emo span>
[ɉirɨ-ɉixe] v. rotate to and fro
Speaker: Tage Yassing
[kadi] v. stare; gaze; ogle
[kolĩ] v. throw out (from the mouth)
[kone abiɁ] pron. everyone
[kootaɁ] n. buttock
[leɁ] v. flap (of wing)
[lɨbã alló] n. knee cap
[manɨ perũ] n. a variety of bean; French bean
[miɁbeɁ] v. blink; wink
[mɨdó] n. rain; weather
[mɨgjaɁ] v. do wrongly; commit a mistake
[mɨpĩ] v. close
Speaker: Tage Yassing,Dialect: syn. mwpyañ span>
[mɨpĩ] v. use or spend a portion
Speaker: Tage Yassing,Dialect: syn. mwmó span>
[mjoko] n. third lunar month of the year; name of the festival celebrated in March
[mjɨ] n. wife
[nã] v. push; press
[neɁ] v. rub or scrape
[nẽru] adj. foul smelling
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: ant. neñpyo span>
[o sadǝr] n. bamboo funnel for filtering beer
[pa] v. cut (by striking); fight; peck
[paapi] n. a variety of flowering plant (Hedychium ellipticum)
Example: Photo by Tapi Takha
[papù] n. egg
[paroɁ pai] n. poultry dropping
[paxuɁ itú] n. a dance usually performed before harvest
[paɲiɁ] n. small broken pieces of rice
[peca sanɨ] n. tree of wild pear (Pyrus sp.)
[pee] v. chant producing a characteristic sound “ho ho…”
[piiʎa papù] n. a variety of greenish bead
Example: Photo by Tage Kanno
[poɁle] v. stretch the truth; exaggerate
[poʎã] n. plateau; a plain area at a height
[popǝr] n. butterfly
[purò] adj. big (of spherical objects)
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: ant. puzó span>
[pɨʎe] num. four
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: etym. pwfi + he span>
[pɨtaɁ ahì] n. wild pear
[pɨtaɁ appú] n. flower of wild pear tree
[pjoɁce] v. detach something to divide into two
[ŋẽciɁ] adj. tasty; delicious
[ŋɨka] pron. my; first person singular genitive pronoun
[sa] v. expel, as when delivering babies or defecating
[sarlã] n. a variety of cane
[sarxo] n. stalk, of millet
[siibiɁ] adj. shrivel; wither; wilt
[sopĩ] n. lizard
[sɨlo] n. today
[sɨpiɁ] n. needlework; needlecraft; embroidery
[sɨxó] n. water channel
[taɁmo] adj. strong; brawny; powerful
[tarlũ] adj. barren; childless
[tartu] v. break
[tasĩ siĩbo] n. large-sized larvae of dragonfly
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. siñbo span>
[taxóo] n. a variety of fern
[tuʎa] v. ambush; lie in wait for; lay trap for
[tuulu] n. sub-clan
[xẽtɨ pakù] n. ashy wood pigeon (Columba pulchricollis)
[xõxũ] n. falcon; eagle
[xɨ] v. cost; value
[jana] n. a species of bamboo
[ɲãbjũ] v. put one’s head into the water
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. zañbuñ span>
[áamì] n. cat
[áɉù-amjò] n. appearance; image
Speaker: Tage Kanno,Dialect: syn. ájùu-amyò span>
[ákojá] pron. something else