Apatani English

[aapu kai] n. showy; ostentatious (person)

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[adĩ dĩɉi] n. black hair

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[ageɁ] n. quiver

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[apiɁ] v. feed (esp. fowls)

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[arɨɨ] n. horn (anatomical)

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[baɲo] adj. small flat object

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Dialect: ant. baarò var. barzó

[bɨɨ] v. give birth to

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Dialect: var. buu

[bɨjo] adj. weedy; full of weed (of a field)

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[dibur] n. mole cricket (Gryllotalpidae)

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[dɨdɨɁ] v. poisoned (by eating)

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[dɨme] n. famine; food shortage

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Dialect: syn. haaya-myoxa

[eɁ] v. shoot

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[ektor] n. actor

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Dialect: or. English

[ẽtɨ] n. paddy harvest

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[ẽtɨ pǝrǝ] n. large cane mat used for temporary storage of harvested paddy in the field

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[ʎego] n. threshold; entrance

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[ʎoɁgã] n. blunt edge of the sword

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[gasu] v. have verbal quarrel

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[gõpiɁ] v. rinse mouth

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[gjotu aɉĩ] n. a variety of traditional friend

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

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Dialect: syn. pyañ

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

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Dialect: syn. pyañ var. gòrbú; gòbúr

[haame] adj. coward; timid

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Dialect: ant. haaro

[har] v. cut (esp. meat); dismember

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[hẽɉũpa] adv. comfortable

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[hẽki] adj. sincere; honest; unfeigned

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[hirũ] n. tusk (of full grown wild pig)

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[huɁpaɁ-huɁja] adj. lavish; extravagant

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[huã alló] n. backbone

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Dialect: var. hoañ alló

[hɨbaɁ] adj. next; following

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[hɨmi] pron. that; third person accusative pronoun

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[háatɨ mɨlɨ] adv. hopefully; confidently; optimistically

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[iʎĩ] n. rectum

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[ɉar] num. thousand

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[ɉeɁmeɁ] adj. flat; deflatted

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[kacĩ] v. recognize; know

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Dialect: syn. kala’

[kamra] n. room

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[kapanɨ] n. witness

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[karpaɁ pɨlò] n. second lunar month of the year; February

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Dialect: syn. pagvr pwlò

[koɁ] v. to divine an omen by examining a chicken liver

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[kɨmì] n. poison (esp. of snake); snake venom

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Dialect: var. kwmè

[laŋu] n. neck

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[lobu] n. skeleton

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Dialect: syn. lobu loci

[lupaɁ] v. criticize; denounce; condemn; speak ill of someone

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

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[lɨdì] n. base; bottom; way; footprint

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[lɨhĩ] n. toe nail

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[lɨxɨ̃] n. dirt on the feet

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[martul] n. hammer

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[miɁca] adj. blind

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[miɁɉu] n. eye discharge

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[mida] n. a part of marriage ceremony

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[mõ] v. chase; drive away; persue

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[mɨdó] n. rain; weather

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[mɨgã] n. feathers of cock, usually of its tail

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[mɨɉi] n. a variety of tree having a very bitter taste

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[mɨmiɁ] v. extinguish; douse; put out (fire)

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Dialect: syn. ami’

[mɨjã] n. a variety of plant used as tinder

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[mjamja] n. ringworm

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[mjole] n. an element of ritual altar

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[nɨpa] pron. for you; second person singular dative pronoun

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[oho gɨ] v. be pregnant

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[paɁ] v. suspend or hang something with a string

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[paroɁ lɨgo] n. time in the early morning when the cocks crow

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[paroɁ jagɨ] n. medium sized basket for measuring quantity of paddy, roughly equivalent to five kilograms

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[pebeɁ] v. release something (esp. which was under tension)

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[pẽgu] v. warm

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[pĩciɁ] v. grasp something by pinching

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[pɨdi pɨʎiɁ] n. watch hut in the paddy fields

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Dialect: syn. pwdi pwzi’

[pɨtaɁ ahì] n. wild pear

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[ridóo] v. throw far

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[rɨme] n. Nepalese alder (Alnus nepalensis)

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[ríi] v. sew; stitch

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[saŋ] n. cot; bed

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Dialect: syn. xaq

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

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

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[sɨbi] n. monkey

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[sɨcúr] n. stag

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Dialect: syn. swcú

[sɨɉʌr sɨ] v. commit suicide

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[sɨlo] n. today

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[sɨpiɁ] n. pangolin

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[sɨrɨ] n. bugle of horn, usually of yak horn

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[sɨɨ] n. cow; ox

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[tamjó] adj. a color pattern of a mithun, of black colour but a white patch running from the head to the tail at the back

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[tano] n. thread; yarn

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[tapǝr] n. cane leaves used during ritual in Myoko festival

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[tolɨɁ] v. pour something in

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Dialect: ant. toliñ

[tudɨ] adj. short

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[tumbu ude] n. tent

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[tɨɁ] v. jerk; pull suddenly

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[ɨtaɁ] n. stinger (of bee or wasp)

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Dialect: syn. ata’

[xei] n. cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum)

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[xɨ] v. slide while in sitting position; scoot

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[xɨɨ] v. tie (esp. hair into a knot)

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[jaa] v. rot; decay; decompose

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[jo jaxo] n. skewer (for meat)

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[ɲuɁpaɁ] v. erase; wipe out; rub off

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[ácì-ahè] n. ailment; suffering

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[ágè] v. drain out (water from a field)

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[álù] n. task

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