Apatani English

[abã] n. burning pain

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

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Dialect: var. abyú-axe’

[aʎoo] n. tongue

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[ageɁ] v. stick as with glue

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[agáa] adv. quickly; rapidly; swiftly; immediately

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[aháa] n. heart

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[alĩ] n. ball; sphere

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[alì] n. leg

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

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Dialect: syn. mwmi’

[apĩ gaɁhĩ] n. ball of cooked rice

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[atobo] n. father-in-law (term of reference)

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[beɁlɨ] n. next door neighbor

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[bẽ] v. vocalize (esp. of animals and birds); chirp; warble; sing

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[bortaɁ] n. a variety of snake; cobra var. burta’; sala burta

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Dialect: var. burta’; sala burta

[buɁ] v. multiply; proliferate; procreate

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[caa] v. step on

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[cĩ] v. know; comprehend; understand

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[deʎã rɨci] n. bell

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Dialect: syn. defañ rwcañ

[do] v. be; exist; lie

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Dialect: ant. zima

[dɨpjo aíi] n. canine tooth

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[dɨxuɁ-tãxuɁ] n. left over eatables

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[ema tupe] n. dreamy (of a person); confused person

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[ẽku] n. paddy of previous harvest

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[ẽtɨ tari] n. kiwi (Actinidia sp.)

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[ʎaɁpjo] n. dry cultivation area (esp. for millet)

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[ʎiɁcu pɨɲã] n. ceremonial friend who exchange the heads of sacrificed pigs

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[gaga] adj. quarrelsome

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[galo sudu] n. metallic smoking pipe

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[gɨ] v. wear clothing; pregnant; bear (fruit or leaves, of a tree)

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[hẽɉiɁ] adj. happy; joyful; exultant

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[hẽpjo] adj. happy, delighted

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[hẽtú] v. miss someone; pine for; yearn for; long for

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[hiɁka] v. frisk

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[hibu] n. beak

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[hukɨ-makɨ] adj. impulsive; impetuous; reckless

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

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

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Dialect: syn. icu

[iʎĩ linɨ̃] n. rectal prolapse

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[ĩdũ] v. go around; wander; roam

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[kamra] n. room

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[kapeɁ] adj. transparent; translucent; obvious; evident

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Dialect: syn. kape’-kase’

[kapjó] adj. first

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[kokã] adj. late; lower

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Dialect: syn. kami

[kɨra] n. a variety of tree; oak tree (Lithocarpus dealbata)

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[laɁpĩ] n. back of the hand

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[leɁpì] n. Chinese green onion (Allium fistulosum)

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Dialect: syn. tale’; twle’

[lupjuɁ] v. spread false and damaging statements about someone; defame; slander;

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Dialect: syn. lupyu’-lusu’

[lɨbã] n. knee

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[lɨciɁ-poɁdo] n. accident; mishap

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[lɨgeɁ] n. popliteal space; hollow of the knee

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[maɉi] n. Tibetan bell without clapper used as a barter item

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[mepi hamã] n. a variety of vegetable; plantain (Plantago erosa)

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Dialect: syn. mepi

[miʎa ri] n. sudden onset eye pain

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[Misã bjako] n. yellow berried nightshade (Solanum xanthocarpum)

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Dialect: syn. swtw byako

[mɨɉù-mɨmjo] n. ways of doing; custom

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[mɨkú-mɨdĩ] v. make noise

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[mɨlaɁ] adj. skilled in doing something; expert

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[mɨmur] v. do something wrongly

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[mɨpja-mɨsa] v. scatter; disseminate; sprinkle

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[mɨɨ] v. heal

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[nɨɁjuɁ] v. prick; pierce

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[nɨɨ] v. instigate; provoke

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[pakiɁ] adj. bent; curved

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[palɨɁ] n. de-weeding tool

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[pamjo] n. injury; encumbrance

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Dialect: syn. pamyo-taxo

[pataɁ ude] n. house with roof of bamboo split

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[patuɁ] n. prison; jail

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[peɁ] v. tuck something in; insert

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[pĩciɁ] n. mouse

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[puha] v. sink (in water)

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Dialect: ant. puca

[puhaɁ tarpĩ] n. rice root weevil

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[pɨgo] n. matter; subject; affair

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Dialect: syn. hago

[pɨniɁ] v. pinch

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[pjã] v. swell, as of wound

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Dialect: syn. gòobu

[pjoɁce] v. detach something to divide into two

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[reɁ] v. cross (a river); traverse; travel across

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[riri tami] n. a variety of creeper used as a vegetable; Chinese creeper (Mikania micrantha)

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[rɨɁtú] n. a part of marriage ceremony in which paddy a newly married couple harvest paddy from the bride’s family field

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[rìda] n. he day after tomorrow

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Dialect: syn. rì alo

[sa] v. expel, as when delivering babies or defecating

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[sãxɨɁ] adj. retarded growth

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[somĩ ŋarmĩ] n. entertainment; amusement; enjoyment

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[tagɨ] v. learn (by listening)

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[tahã-siɁ] n. mongoose

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[talã] n. a disease with skin eruptions including chickenpox and measles

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[tamjó] adj. a color pattern of a mithun, of black colour but a white patch running from the head to the tail at the back

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[taŋu-aláa] n. honey

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[taju] n. wasp

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[tõrò] adj. small (of group)

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Dialect: ant. tozó

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

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Dialect: var. tamiñ

[ɨdã] n. spear

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Dialect: var. adañ

[ɨɉã] n. sun

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Dialect: syn. dazí

[ɨpɨɁ nanɨ] n. broom

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[xuiɁ] adj. sour

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[xɨɉã-xɨro] n. bowels

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[xɨpó] v. cut a tree in the middle of its trunk

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[janu] adj. calm; peaceful; slow

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[jorxã] n. Sichuan pepper

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Dialect: syn. yorxuñ

[ɲaɁɲoɁ] adv. slow; sluggish

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Dialect: syn. za’za’

[ɲaa] v. point; aim; direct

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