Apatani English

[ahu] n. body; torso

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ahu-apo

[aháa pìitã] n. thirst

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɉí pɨhá] n. small cane basket

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[argò] n. vein, artery, nerve, tendon var. arrò

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arná] v. choke

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[auɁ] n. traditional red cane belt

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ajaɁ] n. flesh

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ajo-nano] n. a variety of bee (hover bee)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[beɁri] n. decorative border; edge

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[beeɲì] n. term of address for two audience; term of reference for two persons

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[botoli] n. bottle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[buutũ] n. a person who remains bachelor

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨɉe] adj. many; in large numbers; profuse; copious

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. bwjé bwjé

[bíi] v. cascade; flow (as water)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cãdɨ metɨ] n. an agricultural ritual of the Apatanis

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cẽxo] n. scab (of a wound); crust

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ciɁpɨ] n. frame of the bamboo sliding door

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. twgò

[didǝr] adj. fluent, as in speech; articulate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dobɨ-takǝr alo] n. Thursday

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨɲo-mɨɲo] n. rehearsal

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[eɁxaɁ] v. miss a target by shooting

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

[ema] n. dream; reverie

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. imáa

[ẽsuɁ] v. fail (esp. of rice plant; failing to fruit)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[gjapja-gjasa] v. spread by throwing

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gòobu] v. swell (as a wound); bloat; bulge

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pyañ var. gòrbú; gòbúr

[haaceɁ] n. difficult time; crisis; emergency

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. haace’ swre

[haatĩ bɨlĩ] adv. satisfactorily; confidently; convincingly

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heʎa] v. have patience; have endurance

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽtĩ] v. trust; faith; confidence; belief

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huɁhɨ-huɁxe] v. shake to and fro

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[huɁpaɁ-huɁja] adj. lavish; extravagant

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨkaɁ hamã] n. a variety of edible fern

Speaker: Nani Anga

[icuce] pron. a small amount; a small number; not many

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉaaku-ɉaaʎa] v. stagger; walk unsteadily

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kadǝr] v. recognize properly; look properly; identify

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kahó-tamo] adv. in an offending manner

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kako jalo] n. mirror

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kvrv talo; kako talo; kvlo talo, kwrv talo

[karpjaɁ] v. unroll

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[keɁke] adj. saturated; strong, of taste; thick

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koɁ] v. pry; move or open something or to separate something from something else with force

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kooʎã] adj. round

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. koofo’

[koŋ] num. one

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[lẽ] v. perish en masse, as do the wild bamboo after flowering

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨɁ] v. shed, as leaves do from the trees

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨpì] v. dry

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[marpu] n. corn silk

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miɉiɁ] n. one well versed in traditional literature

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

[milo] n. male

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. bwnw

[murũ] n. first month of the lunar year; January; name of the festival celebrated in January

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨgeɁ] n. pincers, usually of bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨɉa] v. finish doing something

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨŋó] n. unfinished task; remaining work

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨrã-mɨtu] adv. significantly; notably

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨju] n. ash

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjamja] n. ringworm

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nitĩ-hormĩ] n. proverb

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. nitiñ

[nɨɁ] v. prick; stab

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[o barde] n. cane basket used for distilling rice/millet beer

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bardè

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pa] post. purposive case marker

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[padĩ] n. erosion control embankment usually of bamboo and wood along the banks of the streams

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pahĩ] n. liver

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[palo-malo] n. world

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pamjo-taxo] n. injury; encumbrance

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pamyo

[pape] n. gap; intervening gap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨɉo] post. a moment ago

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjuɁnɨ] n. seller

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[púlĩ] v. flower; bloom; blossom

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋarka] v. smile

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋeɁpĩ] v. close

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

[ŋɨɲì] pron. we two; first person dual pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[roɁ] v. snatch; seize

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rugu] v. take care of security; guard

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rũ] v. be mad; go insane; become crazy

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. roñ

[rɨbó arò] n. the morning after three days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rì alo] n. the day after tomorrow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. rìda

[seja hamã] n. Chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[some] n. palm civet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨni] n. sugar

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: Or. Assamese var. swzi

[sɨpǝr] n. pond

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨttĩ] n. warrior’s shield (esp. of buffalo skin)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨɲã-sɨlò] adv. now a days; these days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨɲi] n. sugar or. Assamese

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. swni

[taaxè] v. lie on one’s back; lie supine

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tabu ŋɨi] n. eel (Anguilliformes)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tabuɁ-taruɁ] adj. dirty; dusty

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tadoɁ tasã] n. a variety of yellow beads

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tado’

[taʎiɁ] n. bruise; contusion

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tano pǝrǝ] n. traditional spinning wheel used to wind yarn into balls

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tapiɁ] n. a variety of bird

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tajã] n. bee (single)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tozó ant. tarò

[tumbu ude] n. tent

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tuu] v. pick up

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xeda harnɨ] n. special messenger, usually female, who informs about a ritual like Subu or Muruñ to the traditional friends in other villages

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xẽɉiɁ amú] n. hair on the temple

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨce] v. divide (by counting)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: etym. xw (count) + tace (divide)

[ĩsi] dem. that (demonstrative)

Speaker: Tage Yassing