Apatani English

[aarda-rida] n. in the future; in the coming days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[abba-ci] n. step-father

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[acĩ] pron. group; crowd

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. atañ

[adĩ dĩpúu] n. white or grey hair

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ahi daktor] n. dentist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alĩ] n. ball; sphere

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alíi] v. bury

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amĩ-ahĩ] n. gift; present

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ata] n. aunt (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axa-ajá] v. burning sensation

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ajò lɨpá] n. midnight

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bidĩ] n. ritual hunting of monkey prior to Myoko festival

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[buɁ] v. multiply; proliferate; procreate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[buulì] n. variety of rats seen after bamboo flowering in large numbers

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨsi] n. traditional ballad; song; lyrics

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjako] n. common term for berries

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dacã pɨloo] n. metallic crowbar

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dar] v. break (as a stick); crack; snap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[diiʎã pákù] n. Mountain Imperial Pigeon (Ducula badia)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[diiha] n. clay soil

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dodĩ-dolo] n. world; realm

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. doha-dolo

[dooli] n. sickness; fever

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dorɲó] adj. small (of an animal or a vehicle)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. doorò

[eem] int. yes

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[empɨ] n. paddy husk

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. pwnañ

[ʎãpĩ-cãtũ] n. protective deity in the household

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎoo] v. tease out the outer layer of a bamboo as a rope

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gulũ-gɨle] adj. lukewarm; tepid

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[huɁsi-rasi] adj. hot and humid

Speaker: Nani Anga

[icu-abu] n. quantity

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaɁ] v. solidify; freeze; coagulate

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[keɁtĩ] n. thatch

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koogaɁ] n. occiput; back of the head

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kooɉuɁ] v. hold one’s legs together

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. kooga’

[korò] n. the morning before the last

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koɲã ɲaŋe] n. three years back

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kõcì] n. dragonfly

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. goñcì

[kǝ] int. interjection to draw attention

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kǝ] int. okay; yes; affirmative interjection

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kwle peñbu

[kɨteɁ] v. knock down by punching

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[lumur] v. speak wrongly; say something by mistake

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mǝǝ] letter name m the letter representing m in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[maɁlã] n. many; numerous; abundant

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[maɁlo] conj. either; or

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[magù] v. bellow as an expression of distress

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[milobo] n. male

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. zimw

[misĩ] n. machine

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[mɨdǝr] v. rectify; do something correctly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨdó] n. rain; weather

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨmjó] v. do something in advance

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[narũ] n. fencing (esp. of bamboo garden)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nelɨɁ] v. send somebody in

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. neliñ

[nẽbu] n. home

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨka] pron. your; second person singular genitive pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paɁsǝr] v. kill by hanging

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pacá] v. levy fine

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pamí] n. chicken louse

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[papù hajã] n. egg yolk

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paɲiɁ] n. small broken pieces of rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[piɁɲi] num. eight

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[piiʎa úì] n. God of Luck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pĩtú nanɨ] n. an element of loin loom

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pu] v. make; create; manufacture

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[purtú pèerũ] n. a variety of bean

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. amu pèeruñ; po’tuñ pèeruñ

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. paka’

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pwdi pwzi’

[pɨra] adj. infertile (of egg)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rilĩ] v. throw something out

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨbó arò] n. the morning after three days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨsi-rɨse] adj. messy; disorganized; chaotic; cluttered

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ríi] n. drool

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saɁka] v. contemplate; consider; deliberate on

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[salĩ] v. expel out

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãca] v. grow up

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãxe page] n. a variety of bead

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[soku-soka] v. tease; make fun of; poke fun at; trifle with

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[supjuɁ] n. drain water

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[supù] n. blacksmithy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨxɨ] n. gravel

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. diixw

[taɁcè] v. cut into two

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tabu somĩ] n. a variety of legless lizard

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tadoɁ] n. a variety of yellow beads

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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

[tahɨɁ] adj. hard of hearing

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tamĩ] n. Common Indian madder (Rubia cordifolia)

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twmiñ

[tuupo] n. a plant whole upper portion has been removed

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨ] v. offer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨɁ] v. pound, strike

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ǝǝ] int. yes; okay; interjection to express a positive answer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɨpɨɁnɨ] n. sweeper

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

[xɨ] v. slide while in sitting position; scoot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲar] v. step on something

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. zor

[ɲimaɁ] n. war; enemy

Speaker: Tage Kanno