Apatani English

[aalú] n. potato or. Assamese

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Dialect: syn. byayuñ

[aci-aʎá] adj. precarious; critical

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[ahi ácì] n. toothache

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[aháa ahɨɁ] v. forget; fail to remember

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[ahì] n. fruit

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[aɉuɁ] adj. weak; frail; feeble; sick; ailing

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Dialect: syn. ájùu

[akì tadǝr] n. tape worm

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[anɨ̀-aba] n. parent

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

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[buʎú] n. tadpole

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[burù] n. younger brother

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[bɨsã tabú] n. a variety of snake; Green Ratsnake (Senticolis triaspis)

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Dialect: var. busañ tabú

[bjaago] n. front verandah of an Apatani house

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[bíiɁ] v. emit sound; echo

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[caa] v. step on

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[cíi] v. be extinct

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[dacã] n. iron; metal

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[dẽki] adj. sincere; obedient

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Dialect: ant. dema

[diipe] n. spade

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[dorɨ] n. winter

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[dõ] v. stitch; seam

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[dɨme] n. famine; food shortage

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Dialect: syn. haaya-myoxa

[eneɁ] adv. without reason; without purpose; without work

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[golu] v. lie

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[gjũtã] n. negotiator; go between in a marriage

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[haaɲa] adj. small; young

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hago] n. matter; subject; affair

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Dialect: syn. pwgo

[harlã] n. thigh

Speaker: Nani Anga

[henɨ-mjanɨ] n. relatives; kindred; kith and kin

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[hokoda] n. in that case; that being so; then

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[hu] pron. who

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[hubo-hulo] adj. almost; roughly equal

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[ikũ] n. beewax, used for joining broken threads

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

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[kojũ] adv. thrusting movement of hips

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[kɨdi] n. soil

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[kɨɉǝ] int. interjection of calling “lets go”

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[kɨlè] n. tobacco leaves, esp. fresh ones

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Dialect: syn. muku

[kɨra raadu] n. chestnut

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[kɨri duɁnɨ] n. businessman; broker; agent; middleman

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Dialect: syn. kwrí inw; kwri harnw

[laɁci alaɁ] n. left hand

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[laɁpù] v. close the hand to make a fist

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[leɁra] n. cane havershack

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[lembjã-lerã] n. crossroad; an intersection of two or more roads

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[loxoɁ] n. a part of loin loom

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[luah] n. dumb; mute

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[luʎe] v. slur one’s speech as when drunk

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[lunù-luna] v. speak in vain

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[miɁti] v. close (the eyes)

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[milĩ] adj. serious (of health status) adv. with great difficulty; by hook or by crook

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[mixɨ ronɨ] n. a person possessed by spirit

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Dialect: syn. mixw runw

[moiɁ] adj. turbid; muddy; murky

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[mura] n. seat

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[mɨcǝr] adv. innovatively; ingenuously

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[mɨɉù] n. ways of doing; custom

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[mɨpjaɁ] v. undo something; untie

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[mjamja] n. ringworm

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[nẽpũ] n. space outside the house on the left side

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[paaɁ] v. bargain; offer to buy something

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[paapɨ] n. a distinct plot in a vegetable garden

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[paroɁ paxɨ] n. entrails of chicken

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[peɁ] v. tuck something in; insert

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[pẽgu] v. warm

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[pike page] n. a variety of glass bead

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[põtin] n. pen

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[putu] n. mountain

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[pũtu] adj. hump; ridge; bulge; swelling

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Dialect: ant. paka’

[pɨdì] n. a variety of bird; sparrow

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[pjoɁ] v. detach (a splinter from a wood

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[ŋɨka] pron. my; first person singular genitive pronoun

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[rari hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Piper brachystachum)

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Dialect: var. raru hamañ

[sarxe sarse] n. a late ripening variety of millet

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[siɁ] v. urinate

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[soxã] n. trophy; memento (esp. of special achievements)

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[sukũ] n. well; spring

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[sɨbi bidɨ] n. a variety of monkey

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[sɨrĩ] n. otter

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[taaró] n. variety of a fig

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[tagjá] n. wood wasp

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

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[talɨ́] n. unnatural death

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[tape hamã] n. vegetable of pumpkin leaves

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[tapjò] adj. melodious; nice to hear

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[taju] n. wasp

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[tiɁmjaɁ] v. stain; smudge

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Dialect: syn. ti’mya’-ti’sa

[tɨɁ] v. pound, strike

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[xaarũ agjã] n. altars for the xaruñ god

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[xɨ] num. six

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[xɨɁkoɁ] v. unbolt

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[xɨɨke] v. tie loosely

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[jǝǝ] letter name y the letter representing j in the Apatani alphabet

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[jamu] n. fire

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[jasi jaɉuɁ] n. water ladle

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[joʎã lɨpa] n. midnight

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[jorxũ] n. Sichuan pepper

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Dialect: syn. yorxañ

[ɲaɉeɁ] v. to make expression as when one is about to cry

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[ɲaɲuɁ] n. double chin; wrinkle under the chin

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[ɲuɁpaɁ] v. erase; wipe out; rub off

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[áagjá] n. entrance; door

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Dialect: var. háagyá

[ĩsi] dem. that (demonstrative)

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