Apatani English

[ahú] v. wake up; rouse

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. mwhù

[alaɁ laɁpù] n. fist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apaɁ] v. to give up; to let go

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. opa’

[ate] n. elder brother (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axɨ] n. guts; entrails; viscera

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axɨ sáa] v. have loose motion

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. axw har

[aja-kaco] n. quality; condition

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bo] v. cross; traverse

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[boɁgo] n. dam, for diverting water to irrigation channel

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjaɁ] v. hesitate; waver; vacillate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byaací

[cixo] adj. clever; smart; successful person

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[daɲo] adj. without reason; aimless

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[diigò] n. matter; issue; work

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[doolã] adj. brownish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[eɁlaɁ] adj. good in shooting

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ʎiɁcu pɨɲã] n. ceremonial friend who exchange the heads of sacrificed pigs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[guɁ] v. turn or turn oneself over (esp. in lying position)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gɨre] adj. crispy; crunchy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gjo] v. hurt or kill accidentally

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[haatɨ] n. west

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dazi áago

[harkó] v. bore a hole

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[heme] n. oath; promise

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hibu] n. beak

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiicí] v. grimace; make face (usually in pain)

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. hiizi’

[huɁsi-rasi] adj. hot and humid

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huŋa] v. squat (esp. of quadruplets)

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. buqá

[háakò] n. entrance, entry, door

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hùu] v. be fatty (as pork might get); be oily

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[koʎoɁ-koco] adj. bent; not round; irregular

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kofo’

[koʎũ] n. primordial time

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kofuñ kolo

[kokã] adj. late; lower

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kami

[kotǝr] n. bamboo sticks used as counters

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁkuɁ kǝrǝ] n. mole; a small burrowing insectivorous mammal

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laŋe] num. hundred

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lãcã] adj. red

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨpja] n. shin

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[misĩ] n. machine

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[mixɨ runɨ] n. a person possessed by spirit

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. mixw ronw

[mome] n. trunk (of elephant)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨcĩ] v. know how to do

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨteɁ] v. knock down something

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjobja] adj. facing the sunny side

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. myofi

[nǝǝ] letter name n the letter representing n in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nekã aʎeɁ] n. door of the toilet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nelo] n. household; independent house

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[néesu] n. wrestling

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paɁca] v. toss up

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. pa’lo

[paakuɁ] n. plate

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. paaka’

[paʎù] n. a variety of bird; parakeet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pakiɁ] adj. bent; curved

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[papù] n. egg

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[para] v. crawl in

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. parliñ

[paroɁ paxɨ] n. entrails of chicken

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[parì-pagjò] adj. mosaic like appearance

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pẽ] v. build; construct

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. piñ

[pẽci aɉĩ] n. a variety of traditional friend

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[piiʎa] n. ritual performed to propitiate pìfá úì

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pĩtú nanɨ] n. an element of loin loom

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[poxe] n. a variety of beer considered inferior in quality

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[põtã] n. a section of village council

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[puɉĩ] v. stretch; lengthen; elongate; make longer

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tw’jiñ

[pjapjũ] adv. together; in collaboration; in cooperation; jointly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjàpu] v. destroy by mistake

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rimi-romo] adj. innocent; confused

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rimjoɁ-riso] adj. striped; streaked; variegated

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ripó-rilo

[saɁka-saɁka] v. hesitate; be uncertain; be of two minds

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sadǝr] n. conical shaped bamboo filter

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. o sadvr

[sardĩ] v. take a short cut

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sarsɨɁ] adj. bland; insipid; weak (of liquor)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãɉe] n. timber; wood

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãxɨɁ] n. a variety of plant used as dye (Eurya acuminata var. euprista)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sisa] n. glass

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Hindi

[sitã] pron. like this; this way

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[supũ] v. ceremonial smearing of sacrificial animals with rice powder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[supũ tarɨ] n. traditional dress for ceremonial occasions

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[surúu doɲó] n. traitor; scoundrel

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨʎĩ daʎi] n. this afternoon; towards this evening

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨgã] n. irrigation channel

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨlɨɁ] n. water container of bamboo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨɨ atúu] n. calf

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tabe] n. sugarcane plant

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twbe

[tabjo] n. a species of bamboo (Chimonobambusa callosa)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[talã] n. a disease with skin eruptions including chickenpox and measles

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taɲiɁ] n. corn

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨgò] n. a variety of ritual (esp. to propitiate benevolent deities)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. ciciñ

[ɨɨ] letter name w ɯɯ the letter representing ɯ in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɨci-padɨɁ] n. doodlebug

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

[xɨɨ] v. tie (esp. hair into a knot)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲa] v. whittle; pare; shave; trim

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. zar

[ɲaŋa] v. put one’s head in

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲẽciɁ] adj. tasty; delicious

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. qeñci’

[áaɉó] n. benefit of coming; wage or fare for coming

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[áɉùu-amjò] n. appearance; image

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ásù] adj. lazy; slothful; sluggish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì] n. spirit; god; devil

Speaker: Tage Kanno