Apatani English

[abju-axeɁ] n. movement; motion; activity

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. abyú-ate’

[adã] adj. strong; sturdy

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. wdañ

[aʎeɁ] n. door

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aĩ] n. gold

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɉí] n. farm; wet agricultural field

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bardĩ] n. fate; destiny

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[beɁri] n. decorative border; edge

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[buɁ] v. multiply; proliferate; procreate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨʎoɁ] adj. nearby; near

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[caãkò] n. a piece of flat object, like a piece of broken earthen pot

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ceɁ] v. cut (as with scissor)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[dar] v. move or lift with a stick used as a lever

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daɲo] adj. without reason; aimless

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dãxɨ] v. beat to death; kill by beating

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[doodu] n. drop

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[doomu] adj. cloudy; overcast

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[doxo-acã] n. corner in the house reserved for ritual altars

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨrã-sãxã] n. a variety of edible berries

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. saanci

[eɁcĩ] adv. skilled in shooting

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[eɁlaɁ] adj. good in shooting

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[endi] n. rice plant; rice seedling

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ʎóo] v. collect, esp. firewood

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gɨneɁ-gɨse] v. lightly touch with any part of the body; flirt

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[harù] n. lung

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽco] n. titillation

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiɁsu-hoɁsu] adj. nonplussed; disconcerted; stumped; at a loss

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[huɁhɨ-huɁxe] v. shake to and fro

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hurbu] n. pipe, usually of bamboo or wood, to conduct water from one field to the other

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. hubur

[hɨmi] pron. that; third person accusative pronoun

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨraɁ] adv. again; once more

Speaker: Nani Anga

[híi] v. chant; intone; incant

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hù] v. prick; stab

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ixò hóonɨ] n. the person who sponsors the dry meat distributed to the participants of penw procession, usually a close relative of the main sponsor of Muruñ

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉoɉuru] n. a fruit bearing creeper (Silene sp.)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉompu] n. bamboo shaving used as a ritual element or a decorative item syn. some

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaco] adj. dirty; soiled; smeared; filthy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kapjó] adj. first

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaŋu] v. differentiate; distinguish; tell apart

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karɨɁ] v. meet; greet

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kasɨ-kape] v. ignore; pay attention to

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[katú] v. watch from a distance

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kinɨ] n. bitch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kɨlĩ] pron. whatever

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lake] v. to cross legs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[leju] n. a small path leading to a village

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[luʎiɁ-lume] n. recalcitrant; defiant; wayward

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lurù] adj. stubborn; obstinate; recalcitrant; difficult to speak

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨhaɁ] n. small cane basket

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[marbolu] n. marble

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

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

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

[miha] n. boyfriend; male lover

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[more] n. forest

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨduɁ] v. destroy; damage

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨlãru] pron. all; everybody

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨmó] v. use or spend a portion

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mwpiñ

[mɨxu] v. demarcate; delineate; separate

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mja] v. collect contributions; collect

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. xa

[mjamja] n. ringworm

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ohò] n. sharp bamboo stick put on the ground to prevent intrusion

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paxɨɁ] v. cut to break or fracture bones in a piece of meat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paxè] n. mesh, which may be of wire, bamboo or cane; lattice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pajaɁ-gaajaɁ] v. attack; quarrel

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. paya’

[paju lopa] n. long stick the end of which is covered with glue (payu)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[peɁ] v. tuck something in; insert

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[piɁɲi xaŋe] num. eighty

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[poi] n. residual fermented millet after preparation of beer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pu] v. make; create; manufacture

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[puha] v. sink (in water)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. puca

[purtú pèerũ] n. a variety of bean

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. amu pèeruñ; po’tuñ pèeruñ

[pɨge] n. barbet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨɉoda] adv. later on; after sometime

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨtaɁ appú] n. flower of wild pear tree

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨtĩ ŋɨɨla] n. owl

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tapi’ qwwla; qwwla

[pjo] v. open (as eye)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋeɁpĩ] v. close

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. qe’ko

[ragjã] n. a pole of kwra tree used to carry the Myoko pig.

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ríi] v. sew; stitch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ríipĩ] v. close something by stitching or sewing

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sarli] n. millet seed preserved for the next season

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sarpu sarse] n. an early ripening variety of millet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sarɨ] n. teacher

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: Or. English

[selĩ] v. pull something out

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[supũ pĩta] n. beer container used during rituals

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ta] v. listen; hear

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɁɲó] adj. small (of flat objects); thin; narrow

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taʎí] adv. sarcastic; ironic; sneering

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tapĩ] n. a species of bamboo

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taŋu] n. bee (in group)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taxeɁ] n. a variety of cane

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɲe] n. pus

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tarze

[uro] adv. forcefully; strongly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[uuko] n. hole

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[japĩ tɨpe] n. tattoo on the nose

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jaŋo] num. five

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[ɲima] cop. there isn’t; copula negator

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. do

[ɲime-jaru] n. rainbow

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲuupaɁ] v. remove something by pricking

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[árù] adj. coarse; rough; large ant. amw’

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì inɨ] n. one who can communicate with the god, esp. with spirits of dead ones

Speaker: Tage Kanno