Apatani English

[aarã] adj. deep

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Dialect: syn. uurañ

[abaɁ] v. put a load; help carry

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[abba-apá] n. ancestor; forefather; progenitor

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[abba-axá] n. man (esp. married man); adult man

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[acáa] v. put up; erect

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[adáa] n. a person who has always had only one wife

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[aʎaɁ] v. lick; lap

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[ahu] n. body; torso

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Dialect: syn. ahu-apo

[aɉuɁ] n. weak person

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[akó kõtɨɁ] adj. only one; alone

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[amiɁ miɁbjo] n. eyelash

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[apju] v. spead (a mat) on the floor

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[araɁ] v. tie

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[baró] n. brother

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[beɁ] v. spring, something under tension; leap (as frogs do)

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[buɁ] v. multiply; proliferate; procreate

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[bɨhĩ] n. a variety of tree

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[bjaarã] n. space between the front verandah and the main space in an Apatani house

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Dialect: syn. byaací

[bóì] n. track made by large game

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[damĩda] n. a variety of Apatani traditional dance, accompanied by bwsí

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[darɨɁ pjabja] adv. clean; pure; clear

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[deʎã-rɨcã] n. bell used by priest during rituals

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[dɨbe] v. eat to heart’s content; eat so much one cannot eat any more

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[dɨlɨ kɨce] n. bamboo glass for measuring rice

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[dɨpjo aíi] n. canine tooth

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[dɨxuɁ] n. left over food

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[ʎiɁkũ-ʎiri] adj. wrinkled; crease; pucker; crinkle

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[gaɁce] v. break by clutching something

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Dialect: ant. ga’po

[gaɁti] v. hold tightly

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[gi] v. operate a hinged door

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[gikoɁ] v. open (a hinged door)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gipiñ syn. gipyañ

[gipjã] v. close (a hinged door)

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Dialect: ant. giko’ syn. gitiñ

[gõpĩ] v. close mouth

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Dialect: ant. goñko’ syn. goñpyañ

[haadɨ] v. get angry; annoyed; enraged

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[harkó] v. bore a hole

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[ho] n. and

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨbjɨ] n. bamboo branch

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[hɨɨmi] n. widow

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[ɉĩ] v. tie

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[ɉoɁko] v. open by cutting

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉolo] v. lift or carry down ant. joca

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[kaŋu] v. differentiate; distinguish; tell apart

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kee] v. rub (like a tobacco in the hand)

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[kinɨ] n. bitch

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[koode koode] adv. waddling, of gait

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[koŋ koɲã] n. four years back

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[kɨmǝr] n. a person who castrates pigs

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Dialect: syn. kenná

[laɁbiɁ] n. dextral; right (side)

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Dialect: ant. la’ci

[laɁnɨ] n. thumb

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[laɁpjo] n. palm

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[laɁso] n. middle finger; a unit of measurement equivalent to the length of the outstretched thumb and middle finger

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Dialect: syn. la’ci’ lwpá

[laapjó] v. steal (by taking with hands)

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[lãke] n. a cane loop used for restraining cattle

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[loɲì-lohĩ] n. some days

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[lɨgoɁ] n. cracked sole; cracked feet

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[lɨkè-lɨbè] v. twist one’s feet around

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[lɨji] n. footprint, esp. of animals

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[miʎa ri] n. sudden onset eye pain

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[mocuɁ] v. kiss

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[muɁ] v. brew (beer)

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[murto] n. metal arrowhead

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Dialect: var. morto

[mɨmeɁ] v. initiate

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[mɨmur] v. do something wrongly

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[mɨpja-mɨsa] v. scatter; disseminate; sprinkle

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[no ho] pron. where

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[nõ] v. call (esp. an animal)

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[nuʎã] n. plain area; level ground

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[pagǝr pɨlo] n. second lunar month of the year; February

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

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[paju sudu] n. bamboo container for glue (payu)

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[pimɨɁ] v. slice into pieces

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[pĩbè] n. snow

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Dialect: var. peñbè

[pjaɲó] adj. small, as a plot of land or a grain

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Dialect: ant. pyarò

[raʎúpjala] adj. absentminded; forgetful; distracted

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[rapɨɁ] n. a space underneath

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[ri] v. throw

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Dialect: syn. ku, go

[ru] v. sneak; plot; machinate; conspire

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[rubĩ] n. earlobe

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Dialect: syn. yarú rubiñ

[soku-soka] v. tease; make fun of; poke fun at; trifle with

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[sosǝr] adj. shrill (of voice); high pitched; thin voice

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Dialect: ant. bañbañ

[sɨni] n. sugar

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Dialect: Or. Assamese var. swzi

[takũ putu] n. a lesser variety of Muruñ festival

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[tamjo] n. a variety of tree

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

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[tãru] adj. bad in taste (of drinks)

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: ant. tañpyo

[tãxuɁ] n. leftover drinks

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[teɁ] v. fall (esp. from a standing position)

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[topaɁ] v. pour something away

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[xuu] adj. old

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[xɨ] v. cost; value

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[jaaxuɁ] n. residue of something after rotting or decomposition

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[jacu] n. small bamboo container for salt or tobacco

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[jalã pɨro] n. a small egg container of bamboo

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[janu] adj. calm; peaceful; slow

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[japa] n. young man

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[jordĩ] n. upper portion of a hill

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Dialect: ant. yorko

[ɲaaɲiɁ aláa] n. honey

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[ɲipá] n. general term for people living in the plains of the south

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[áttò] n. owner ant. mii

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[ĩka] pron. that

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