Apatani English

[acĩ] pron. group; crowd

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. atañ

[akó kõtɨɁ] adj. only one; alone

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[alaɁ muɉa] n. glove

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[alɨɁ] v. insert; put

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. mwmi’

[amú] n. lie; untruth; falsehood

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apju] v. spead (a mat) on the floor

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[aŋɨ] int. interjection to express indifference; let it be

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. aqw swco; aga swco

[arí-apɨ] n. neighbourhood; locality

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aríi] n. border; boundary

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[asǝr] n. splinter (of wood)

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[atɨɁ] v. keep; store; retain; hold on to

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ajò] n. night

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[beɁri] n. decorative border; edge

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨrĩ] n. python (Python molurus)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjuhu] n. grave; tomb

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[búu] v. give birth to var. bww

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. bww

[ciɲuɁ] n. soot; impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of wood

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[dali] n. dried pulse usually prepared as gravy and taken with rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[diikoɁ] n. hard soil; lumps of soil

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[duɁca] adv. get excited; fired up

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[dɨsɨ] n. edible; food

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ẽsuɁ] v. fail (esp. of rice plant; failing to fruit)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ʎóo] v. collect, esp. firewood

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gaɁbɨ] v. hold on to something (as someone’s hand, a stick or a knife)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gulũ-gɨle] adj. lukewarm; tepid

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gɨɁi] v. fall down (from standing position)

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[gjo] v. hurt or kill accidentally

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[hiɁxɨɨ] v. wring; twist

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[hõkiɁ] v. bend; stoop

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. huñki’

[hɨɨbo] n. bull

Speaker: Nani Anga

[háako] n. entrance

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. áako

[ĩ] v. go

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[ɉaa] v. sway (as a drunken person do); stagger

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kagoɁ] v. overlook; disregard; ignore

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[kalaɁ-kapa] adj. acquainted with

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[kaŋu-kare] v. discriminate; be biased against; be prejudiced against

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[keená] n. black necked crane (Grus nigricollis)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. kenda

[koopja] n. lower back

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[kopaɁ] v. throw away (from the mouth)

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[kɨle pemu] n. a variety of flowering plant that grows on the banks of the river

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kwle peñbu

[laɁhĩ] n. finger nail

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁko] n. button; an element of babo which is a horizontal stick on the body

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lẽ] v. collect, as honey

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[lii] v. challenge, as in potlatch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[luho] v. speak offensively

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[migũ] n. a variety of narrated oral literature

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miilò] n. eighth lunar month of the year; July-August

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. miilò pwlò

[miɉiɁ] n. one well versed in traditional literature

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: etym. ami’ (eye) + áfò (skin)

[mituɁ] n. tip; apex; sharp end

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. arañ

[mɨmur] v. do something wrongly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨtù] v. do something for the first time

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nãpja] v. scatter by pushing

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nu] adj. dark red colour

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[nɨmi] pron. you (accusative); second person singular accusative pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paʎa] adj. leaning; inclined; bent

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pafo’

[pahe] v. pledge a property to the creditor as a security

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[pahĩ] n. liver

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[paxɨɁ] adj. late; delayed; overdue; behind schedule

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[paɲiɁ aɲiɁ] n. small rice grains that remain after sieving

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[pẽbe] n. snow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. piñbe

[po] v. weave

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[pulis] n. police

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[pũtu] adj. hump; ridge; bulge; swelling

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. paka’

[pɨta] n. bird

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[pjaɁlo] v. release captive fowls from the cage

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjaɁmĩ puʎe] n. a variety of traditional shawl

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[pjali] n. seed (esp. of rice)

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[raru hamã] n. a variety of wild vegetable

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[ro bariɁ] n. whirlwind

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. mifa bari’

[rõ] v. break relationship; avoid (esp. a relation); antipathy; abhorrence

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rujó] n. a variety of cane earring

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[rɨhĩ] n. a variety of tree

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[saɁrĩ] n. cough

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[sado] n. boyfriend; male lover

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. miya

[sarɨ] n. knot (of tree); nodule; node

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[sãsũ] n. plantation

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Dialect: syn. sadi; salw

[sãtaɁ ude] n. wooden house

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[se] v. pull

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[sudu] n. bamboo container

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[sɨbjó] n. flying squirrel

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Dialect: syn. swcí

[sɨʎoɁ] n. river bank; beach

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[sɨgo] n. bridge

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[tadoɁ] n. a variety of yellow beads

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. tado’ tasañ

[taiɁ tapĩ] n. corn

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tape] n. pumpkin

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. e’pe; ayó twpe

[tatũ bulũ] adj. chubby

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Dialect: var. utuñ buluñ

[taɲiɁ marpu] n. corn silk

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[tĩpi] n. dry field; dry cultivation area

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[toɁ] v. descend; go down; climb down

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[tɨɁ] v. jerk; pull suddenly

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[uskul] n. school

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Dialect: or. English syn. wskul

[ɨmjó] n. poison; aconite (Aconitum ferox)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɨpɨɁnɨ] n. sweeper

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[jamu muku] n. smoke

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[japĩ ái] n. epistaxis; bleeding from the nose

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[ɲaɁɲoɁ] adv. slow; sluggish

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. za’za’

[ɲaaɲiɁ aruɁ] n. honeycomb

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲibu] n. Apatani shaman

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