Apatani English

[aci-aʎá] adj. precarious; critical

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[aʎeɁ ago] n. doorstep

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[agɨ] v. dress; clothe; put on dress

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[agjá] v. to place one’s hand(s) with palms facing upwards, as when receiving something.

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

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[alì lɨpjo] n. sole

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[amã] n. roof

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[amí-abã] n. elders

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[anee] v. provide packing or support to join or mend something.

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[anoo] adv. very; extremely; awfully

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[aroɁ] adj. lucky

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[aɲã] n. year

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[aɲìnɨ] n. second

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[aɲóo] v. be subject to a behavioral restriction due to a taboo.

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[bɨjaɁ] adj. soft; spongy; pliable

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Dialect: syn. bwfe’ ant. alvr

[ciɁpɨ] n. frame of the bamboo sliding door

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[dekĩ] n. clay

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[dɨhi-dɨmí] adj. choosy about food

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[dɨroɁ] n. medicine; drug

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[díĩ] v. curse

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[ʎaŋa] v. flow in (of water)

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[ʎiɁdo] n. food for pigs

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[gaɁtĩ] v. block by holding

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[goŋe] n. one mouthful; one word

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[gõpɨ] n. chin

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[gɨda-pata] n. large cane basket

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[gjaɁ] v. wander; roam

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[haɁ] v. bite off

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[haaci] n. east

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Dialect: syn. dazi cago

[haaʎĩ popǝr] n. a variety of moth

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[hiɁxɨɨ] v. wring; twist

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[ho] n. and

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[hoɁgjo-hoɁʎo] n. mixed up; mingle; intermingle; amalgamate

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Dialect: syn. ho’yo-ho’ci

[ii] letter name I the letter representing i in the Apatani alphabet

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[ice] adj. few; some; scant; meagre

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Dialect: syn. icu

[impjaɁ] n. cotton; wool

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Dialect: var. empya’

[ɉãda] n. flag

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[ɉĩ] v. tie

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[kaʎa] v. wait; watch

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[kako jalo] n. mirror

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Dialect: syn. kvrv talo; kako talo; kvlo talo, kwrv talo

[kamɨ] n. work; task; job; occupation

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[kapeɁ] v. see through

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[kenna] n. a person who castrates pigs

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Dialect: syn. kwmvr

[komã] adj. dark (esp. to describe shades of color)

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[kooʎa] v. limp

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[koojo] n. the night before the last

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[koju tapjo] n. coccyx; tail bone

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[kojũ] adv. thrusting movement of hips

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[kumpaɁ] v. throw away (esp. from a container)

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[kɨdi swbi] n. serrow

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[kɨɲiɁ] adj. cruel; brutal; fiendish; ruthless

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[kúcì] adj. near

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[laatu] v. catch; seize; intercept

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[me] v. search; look for; seek; check

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[milobo] n. male

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Dialect: ant. zimw

[mixɨ ronɨ] n. a person possessed by spirit

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Dialect: syn. mixw runw

[mɨʎu] v. waste; spend

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[mɨpjó] v. do something secretly

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[mɨsɨ] n. task; things to do

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[mjodu] n. time; season; period

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Dialect: syn. myodu-myolo

[ohó] adj. tall; high

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[parì-pagjò] adj. mosaic like appearance

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[paju lopa] n. long stick the end of which is covered with glue (payu)

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[piruɁ jagɨ] n. a variety of cane basket

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[potĩ] n. an element of loin loom

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[puluɁ] v. cover

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

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Dialect: syn. pwdi pwfi’

[pɨdĩ] n. male hair knot

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[pɨpĩ] n. bamboo mat for drying paddy or millet

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[pɨro] n. basket of splitted bamboo used for storage

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[pɨtĩ] n. an open space

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[pɨɨlɨɁ] v. replenish (esp. liquor)

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[pí] v. bark

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[ŋǝǝ] letter name q ŋʌʌ the letter representing ŋ in the Apatani alphabet

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[rixaɁ] v. miss the target while throwing

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Dialect: ant. rida’

[roɁ] v. snatch; seize

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[roŋe roŋe] adv. sometimes; off and on

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[saɁna] adj. out of breath; breathless; panting; gasping

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[sadi] n. plantation (esp. of pine); pine estate

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Dialect: syn. sañsuñ; salw

[salũ] n. medium sized cucumber

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[santì] n. a variety of hardwood

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[sĩ] v. feed (esp. liquid food)

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[subu arɨɨ] n. mithun horn

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[sumù] n. sand

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[supũ] n. world

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[sɨhũ] n. hanging bridge

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[sɨlã pacã] n. nape of the neck

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[taaxè] v. lie on one’s back; lie supine

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[takũ jaarǝ] n. cricket (Acheta domesticus)

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

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Dialect: var. twniñ

[tarlar] n. peacock

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Dialect: syn. tar pwta

[tãgɨ] adj. drunk; inebriated

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[tiɁho] v. make a mark

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[tɨleɁ] n. a variety of garlic

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Dialect: syn. tale’

[ura imiɁ] n. second hearth towards the back of the house

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[xaãcuɁ] n. can container with a lid (esp. to store rice)

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[xeɁlɨɁ] v. put on; cover

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Dialect: ant. xe’liñ

[japǝr] n. mortar

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[jata] adj. color pattern of she-mithun, described as overall black with a white spots on either side

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[joʎã] n. dead of night

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