Apatani English

[akì talã] n. dog of brownish color

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[akó-abiɁ] pron. everyone; everybody; every person

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[alo apĩ] n. lunch

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[alo sudu] n. small bamboo salt container carried for feeding mithuns

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[amɨ̀] n. daughter-in-law (term of address)

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[anɨɁ] n. hurry; haste; urgent

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[apjũ] n. bunch; cluster

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[behe] n. bamboo shoot

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Dialect: syn. byapu’, wtw rwbw, wtw bwrw

[bĩ] v. uproot (as of weed)

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[bɨʎo] n. yesterday

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[bɨso-kaco] n. forbidden; proscribed; prohibited

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[bárì] n. traditional ballad (esp. in the genre of the Nyishis)

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[daɁ] v. stand; be there

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[dãtǝr] v. break something by beating

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[didǝr] adj. fluent, as in speech; articulate

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[doŋeɁ] adj. sunny; cloudless

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Dialect: ant. domiñ

[dula] n. rope to tie dogs

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Dialect: syn. akì dula

[dɨmɨ nanɨ] n. side dish

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[dɨpjo] v. steal; pirate; plagiarize

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[eɁ] v. shoot

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[eɁxɨ] v. kill by shooting

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[gi] v. operate a hinged door

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[gɨɉu-gɨmjo] n. dress; dressing style

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Dialect: syn. gwju

[gɨɨ] v. move by manouvering

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[haʎã sãxã meʎã] n. hibiscus (Hibiscus rosasinensis)

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[heɁ] v. knit

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[hirĩ] n. strips of fermented bamboo shoot

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[hixɨ̃] adj. tingling sharp sensation in the teeth; feeling, in the teeth, after eating sour food

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[horku] adj. slanting; squinting

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[hoó] adj. spacious; roomy; capacious

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[hɨki] n. stillbirth

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[hɨpe hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Elatostema platyphyllum)

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[imi] v. sleep

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[ɉarpĩ] v. hysteria; sickness caused by the spirit of a dead person

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[ɉigɉiro] n. kind of a traditional shawl

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[ɉú] v. weigh; measure

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[koʎũ kolo] n. primordial time

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Dialect: syn. kofuñ

[kooʎoɁ] adj. not rounded; uneven

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Dialect: ant. koofañ

[kõci patã] n. labour gang that works early in the morning

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[kɨcè] n. small bamboo cup used for measuring rice or millet

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[laɁdɨ] n. forefinger; a unit of measurement equivalent to the length of the outstretched thumb and forefinger

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[laɁku] adj. sinistral; left (side)

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Dialect: syn. la’ci

[laɁpjo] n. palm

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[loxoɁ] n. a part of loin loom

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[lunù-luna] v. speak in vain

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[lɨbã] n. baby

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[lɨpiɁ] n. numbness of the limbs

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[meɁ] v. join; link; couple

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Dialect: syn. me’si’

[miɉiɁ-migũ] n. traditional knowledge

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

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[milò ĩ] v. to get married (of a female)

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Dialect: ant. myw laa

[muku kuli] n. seed of tobacco plant

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[muku sudu] n. smoking pipe

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

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[mɨnù-mɨna] adv. worthlessly; uselessly

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[mɨpeɁ] v. complete; finish

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[mɨpiɁ] v. break something fragile like an egg

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[nɨɁjuɁ] v. prick; pierce

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[nɨpu apĩ] n. feast on the occasion of the birth of a newborn baby

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[paa] v. find (esp. by chance or luck); stumble on; chance on

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[peenɨ] n. ceremonial procession as a part of Murung festival

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[pĩtú nanɨ] n. an element of loin loom

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[poɁle] v. stretch the truth; exaggerate

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[pohiɁ] v. caress; pet; fondle; stroke

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Dialect: syn. pohi’-poso etym. po (hug) + hi’ (frisk)

[pɨdǝr] v. toss; lob

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[pɨge] n. barbet

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[ŋɨra] n. variety of a migratory fish

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[reɁ] v. shave; scrape

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[roŋe] adv. once; one time

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[rutĩ] n. earring

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[sarse] n. millet

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[sãti] v. push something tightly as when packing

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[sitã] pron. like this; this way

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[soɲó] adj. thin (of objects like a thread)

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Dialect: ant. sorò

[sɨbi bidɨ] n. a variety of monkey

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[sɨgo] n. bridge

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[sɨni] n. sugar

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Dialect: Or. Assamese var. swzi

[sɨɲi] n. sugar or. Assamese

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Dialect: var. swni

[takĩ] n. cowrie shell

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Dialect: syn. takiñ za’co

[taruɁ] n. ant

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[tãgɨ] adj. drunk; inebriated

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[tiɁmjaɁ] v. stain; smudge

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Dialect: syn. ti’mya’-ti’sa

[tii] v. pour

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Dialect: syn. to

[tur] v. be alive

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Dialect: var. tor

[tuulu] n. sub-clan

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[tɨgeɁ] v. stick; adhere; be glued

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Dialect: syn. age’

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

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Dialect: var. taniñ

[xa] v. peel; pare; skin; take the skin off

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[xɨlã] n. a variety of red-brown squirrel

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[jaɁlã] n. boneless portion of red meat

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Dialect: syn. yo aya’

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

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[jalã pombo] n. hairy caterpillar

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[jalu-jabja] n. stylish; fashionable

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

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[jasi jaruɁ] n. water hyacinth (Eichhomia crassipes)

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[joʎã lɨpa] n. midnight

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[ɲĩpǝr] n. nipple

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[ácì-ahè] n. ailment; suffering

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[áttò] n. owner ant. mii

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[ĩka] pron. that

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