Apatani English

[abju-ateɁ] n. movement; motion; activity

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Dialect: var. abyú-axe’

[ací] n. elder brother’s wife (term of address)

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[ací-baró] n. brothers; siblings

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Dialect: var. ací-búrù

[acò-amyò] n. animals; creatures

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[adũ-arã] adj. disoriented; muddled; confused

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[aʎã] num. ten

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[aʎã jaŋo] num. fifty

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[ahi ácì] n. toothache

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[aɉí-ʎaɁpjó] n. agriculture; farming

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[alo kamjã] adj. everyday; daily; commonplace

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[alɨ́] n. a part of upper arm of an animal; lineage to whom a part of upper arm of sacrificed animal is offered

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[amiɁ nuri] n. pupil

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[axoo] adj. entangled (hair)

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[ajobo] n. mother-in-law (term of reference)

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[baɉiɁ] v. cook in oil

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[beɁ] v. spring, something under tension; leap (as frogs do)

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[bisǝr abíi] n. Black and white Apatani traditional skirt

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[bɨdí] adj. trick; tactic; strategy

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[bjaakã] n. space underneath the house

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[bjáa] v. roast; grill

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[ciɁpɨ] n. frame of the bamboo sliding door

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[cor] v. spray; squirt; sprinkle

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[dɨbe] v. eat to heart’s content; eat so much one cannot eat any more

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[ẽxo] n. rice stalk; portion of a stalk

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[gaɁti] v. hold tightly

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[gartaɁ] n. paddy field in the upper portion

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Dialect: ant. garpw’

[gjo] v. hurt or kill accidentally

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gjàa] v. cut, with an inward motion of the blade

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haajã] n. pulp; core; inner position

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[hiɁɉã] v. wring; twist clothing to dry it.

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hubur] n. pipe, usually of bamboo or wood, to conduct water from one field to the other

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Dialect: var. hurbu

[huɲi] n. pestle

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɉã apĩ] n. food contributed when a newborn baby is born

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hùu] v. be fatty (as pork might get); be oily

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[imi] v. sleep

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[ɉu] v. winnow

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kanɨ] n. one who sees

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[karmú] v. look with anger or disapproval

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[katú] v. watch from a distance

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[kooroɁ] n. a traditional relationship on the maternal side whom a portion of meat from sacrificial animal is offered

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[kuti] n. poker of wood or bamboo

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[laɁcã] n. ring

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[laŋe] num. hundred

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[lohe] n. one day

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[luɲoɁ] v. practice speaking

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[meɁ] v. join; link; couple

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Dialect: syn. me’si’

[miɁbeɁ amu] n. eyelash

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mi’byo’ amu

[miɁtĩ amu] v. eyebrow

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[mɨpaɁ] v. remove; spend

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[mɨŋu-mɨre] v. discriminate

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[mɨra] n. slave

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[mɨru] adj. hard; difficult

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[mjɨ-milo] n. married couple

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[nago] n. ritual hut in the middle of a village

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[nasɨ] n. dance or. Hindi

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Dialect: var. nasu

[neɁ] v. gnaw, as a rodent; nibble

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[nẽdĩ] n. upper section of the village

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Dialect: ant. neñkó

[pace] v. cut into two pieces

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[paduɁ] v. damage by cutting

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[paʎa] adj. leaning; inclined; bent

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Dialect: syn. pafo’

[pamɨɁ] v. cut or chop into small pieces

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[pamjo] n. injury; encumbrance

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Dialect: syn. pamyo-taxo

[parì-pagjò] adj. mosaic like appearance

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[paju] n. glue usually of plant origin

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[poŋe-poŋe] adj. varied; diverse

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[pɨgja gjapúu] n. wreathed hornbill (Aceros undulatus)

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[pjarkiɁ] v. fold

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

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[ŋaare] adj. lose taste or inability to eat more

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Dialect: syn. qaatw

[ŋarsi] v. chuckle; laugh quietly or inwardly

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[ŋoɁrò] adj. big (plot of land)

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Dialect: ant. qo’zó

[raɁtĩ] v. fasten (as of a door)

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[rica] v. throw something up

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Dialect: ant. rilo

[riilaɁ] n. tendril

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[rɨ] v. stagnate (as do the water)

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[saɁka] v. contemplate; consider; deliberate on

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[saã] v. grow; live

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[sampju] n. a variety of blue colored beads

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[saroɁ sanɨ] n. banyan tree (Ficus bengalensis)

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[sarxo] n. stalk, of millet

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[sãxã] n. border post

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[sɨha] n. cane rope

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Dialect: var. saha

[sɨlo] n. today

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[sɨmǝr] n. silt; sand

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[sɨre tɨxe] n. tick

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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Dialect: syn. swre taxe

[sɨɨ atúu] n. calf

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[tacì] n. crab

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tadǝr] n. parasitic worm

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[taʎũ] n. tapeworm larvae

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[tala] n. lock

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[tariɁ] n. fern

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[tarò] v. listen secretly; eavesdrop

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[tũ] v. imprison; confine; hold captive

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[tɨp pɨpɨ] n. Himalayan cuckoo (Cuculus saturatus)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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[xe] v. force something

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[xeɲiɁ] n. temple

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Dialect: var. xeñji’

[jagɨ] n. cane or bamboo basket

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[jaɉuɁ] n. ladle

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[ɲemɨɁ] v. break something into pieces by chewing

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[áɉùu-amjò] n. appearance; image

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