Apatani English

[aalú] n. potato or. Assamese

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byayuñ

[abu-akeɁ] n. manure; fertilizer

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[ací-búrù] n. brothers; siblings

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Dialect: var. ací-baró

[adĩ ceɁnɨ] n. barber

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[aʎã jaŋo] num. fifty

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[amu] n. yield; production; quantity (crop)

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[amí] n. elder sister (term of reference)

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[amú] v. to tell a lie

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[arɉĩ] v. stretch (esp. one’s body)

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[aríi] n. border; boundary

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[asĩ] v. feed (esp. liquid food)

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[ata] n. aunt (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ajóo ɲacù] n. upper lip

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[baara] n. fare; fee

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[biɉe arɨ] n. bundle of bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[bjaɲó] adj. small (esp. of flower)

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[ciba] n. small cane bag usually used for carrying tiffin

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[ciirɨ] n. edge; brim

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. lwwrw

[cogĩ] v. squat; crouch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[corɉĩ] adj. straight

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[dapo] n. penalty; prohibition; sanction

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[daɲi caca] n. a small variety of cicada

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[diigò] n. matter; issue; work

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[dɨriɁ-paciɁ] n. luggage; household articles

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[díĩ] v. curse

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[empjã sudu] n. bamboo container to store grains for poultry

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ʎaɁka] v. taste (by licking)

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[gõpjã] v. close mouth

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. goñko’ syn. goñpiñ

[gulũ-gɨle] adj. lukewarm; tepid

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pyañ

[haaro] adj. brave; courageous

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: ant. haame

[haaja] adj. hungry; famished; starving

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[harceɁ] n. fold of the groin

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[heŋa-hẽxa] adj. troublesome; worrisome; bagging; distressing

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽɉu] n. attitude; way of thinking

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽtú] v. miss someone; pine for; yearn for; long for

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hubju] n. scum; froth

Speaker: Nani Anga

[iɁce] n. a night’s interval

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kaɉi] n. a variety of traditional dish

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kami-kami] adv. in front of one’s eye

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[kobja] adj. generous; altruistic; forthcoming; quick in giving

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[kojũ] adv. thrusting movement of hips

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[kubu] n. rat; mouse

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[kǝ] int. interjection to draw attention

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[laaxeɁ] v. keep something upside down

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[leɁca] n. cane havershack covered with fibres from the bark of a particular tree worn during jungle expeditions or during war-related rituals

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lupjuɁ] v. spread false and damaging statements about someone; defame; slander;

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. lupyu’-lusu’

[maɁlo] conj. either; or

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[milobo] n. male

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. zimw

[misì] adj. old woman

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨlaɁ-lulaɁ] adj. skilled; expert

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. miki

[mɨró] v. enlarge; widen

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[mjɨ káanɨ] n. diviner

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nelii] n. world of the dead

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Dialect: syn. nelii myokó

[nɨ da] pron. when (future tense)

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

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bardè

[o sadǝr] n. bamboo funnel for filtering beer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[oho búudu alo] n. birthday

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[palɨɁ] n. de-weeding tool

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[parmɨɁ] v. grind in powder

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[patuɁ alɨɁ] v. put in the jail; imprison

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[pesuɁ] n. hornbill

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[piiʎa úì] n. God of Luck

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[potuɁ] n. photo

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Dialect: or. Assamese

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

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Dialect: syn. tano pvrv

[pjapĩ] n. early maturing variety of rice

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[pjatɨ] n. a variety of rice

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[pjokoɁ] v. open, of eye

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[ŋarka] v. smile

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[riilaɁ] n. tendril

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[ruu] v. chase away; drive away

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[sampú] n. a variety of white beads of chank shell

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[sarkoɁ] v. rip open; tear open

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[sarma puɉũ] n. a mound of refuse mainly comprising of millet stalk and other weeds in a millet garden

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

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[sẽ] v. wither; dry

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[sõ] v. move sideways

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[tadǝr] n. parasitic worm

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tarko] n. variety of plant used as antiseptic after burning it.

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tasĩ siĩbo] n. large-sized larvae of dragonfly

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. siñbo

[taxũ] n. a bamboo fish trap

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tajvr

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

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Dialect: syn. tozó ant. tarò

[tipi] n. thumb impression

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[tooro] n. Rhino beetle

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[tõsǝr] v. advise; suggest; counsel; guide

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[tumbu ude] n. tent

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[tuu] v. pick up

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[tɨgeɁ] adj. sticky

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Dialect: syn. age’

[tɨnĩ] n. variety of a plant; wild sesame (Perilla frutescens)

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Dialect: var. taniñ

[ɨde] n. stone slab trap

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[ɨro o] n. beer prepared in large scale for occasions like Muruñ ritual

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[xaci] n. ceiling rack for storing meat

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Dialect: syn. yo bade; bade

[xeẽ] v. roast

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[xẽŋu] v. warm something

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[xɨka] v. count; innumerate

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

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[jara] n. a cane basket used by males for fetching firewood

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jormɨɁ] n. dried chili pepper

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ácì] v. hide; conceal

Speaker: Tage Kanno