Apatani English

[abu-akeɁ] n. manure; fertilizer

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[abúu] n. a cylinderical structure

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Dialect: ant. aro’

[aɉuɁ] adj. weak; frail; feeble; sick; ailing

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Dialect: syn. ájùu

[amiɁ ácì] n. conjunctivitis; eye disease

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[amu] n. hair

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[amú] v. to tell a lie

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[arè] adj. loose; not fixed tightly or firmly

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[arí-apɨ] n. neighbourhood; locality

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[axɨ̃-amɨ] adv. confused; disconcerted; befuddled; dumbfounded

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[aíi] n. blood

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[baltiŋ] n. bucket

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[beɁce] v. crack; split; rapture

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[bjo] v. swim

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[bíiɁ] v. emit sound; echo

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[búu] v. give birth to var. bww

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Dialect: var. bww

[ciɁ] v. move fast (as a fish do)

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[cigu] n. source (of a stream)

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[dacã] n. iron; metal

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[daɲi áago] n. west

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Dialect: syn. haatw

[dãxo-paɁɲì] n. weapon

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[dempjo] n. mouse

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[diiha] n. clay soil

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[diɉeɁ] n. portable bamboo vessel (esp. for carrying liquor)

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Dialect: syn. didu

[diì] v. detach; peel

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[doɲaɁ] n. sunny day; cloudless day

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[dɨmɨ nanɨ] n. side dish

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[dɨxuɁ] n. left over food

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[eneɁ] adv. without reason; without purpose; without work

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[ʎóo] v. collect, esp. firewood

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[gaambɨ] n. border; brim; boundary

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gaŋu] n. mouth harp

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[haaru] n. mourning; grief

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[heŋa-hẽxa] adj. troublesome; worrisome; bagging; distressing

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[hiɁ] v. paint; apply paint to; white-wash

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[hiɁsu-hoɁsu] adj. nonplussed; disconcerted; stumped; at a loss

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[iŋɨ-ĩxeɁ] v. move around

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

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[kalɨ-kaha] v. estimate; appear

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[karpjaɁ] v. unroll

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[kaxaɁ] v. disapprove something; dislike; reject

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[koʎã] adj. round

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[komla tɨŋá] n. orange

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[kootú] v. stand in a stooping posture

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[kosiɁ kosiɁ] pron. one after the other

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[lãpru] n. a protective armor, usually of cloth covering the neck

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[li] v. sow; seed; broadcast

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[loorɨɁlo] int. interjection to express hopelessness

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Dialect: syn. amw arwlò

[luko] v. narrate; inform; recount; tell

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[lɨhaɁ] n. small cane basket

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[maɁbo] n. son in law (term of reference)

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[marbolu] n. marble

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Dialect: or. English

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

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Dialect: syn. mepi

[mo] v. move one’s face

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[mɨcu] n. fire accident, esp. burning down house (s)

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[mɨdã] v. touch (esp. to cause pain)

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Dialect: syn. mwne’

[nẽpaɁ] v. send somebody away

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[no hopa] pron. for where

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[pabú] n. valley; gully

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[pacu] n. chick

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[paxo] n. narrow channel in the wet rice cultivation fields

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Dialect: syn. he’te’

[paɲiɁ] n. small broken pieces of rice

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[pe] v. switch; lever

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[piɁɲi] num. eight

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[pimpù] n. tiffin; light meal; small amount of food item (esp. for offering to deities)

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[pisǝr] v. kill by cutting the throat

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[pĩbè] n. snow

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Dialect: var. peñbè

[poŋe-poŋe] adj. varied; diverse

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[pulúu] adj. white; fair

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[pɨrɨ́] n. stinging nettle

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[pɨtaɁ ahì] n. wild pear

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[pàr] v. solidify; bake

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[rumali] n. handkerchief

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[rɨgoɁ] n. cane loop tied on the horns of cows or mithuns

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Dialect: syn. rwguñ

[saʎó] n. a variety of tree; Fragrant Himalayan Champaka (Michelia champaca)

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[saleɁ] adj. raw, as of wood; standing wood

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[sãgo tape] n. a kind of bead

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[sohte] v. roam; travel for fun

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[subu sa] n. cane rope for mithuns

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[sár] v. rip; tear

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[taɁcè] v. cut into two

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[tacĩ] v. understand; comprehend

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[tadǝr] n. parasitic worm

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[taʎiɁ] n. bruise; contusion

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[tagjaɁ] v. hear wrongly

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[takũ jaarǝ] n. cricket (Acheta domesticus)

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[tamjo] n. a variety of tree

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[tapeɁ] n. leech

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Dialect: var. twpe’

[tare] n. thorn

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Dialect: var. twre

[tarsi] n. wall

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Dialect: var. tasi

[tihxo] adj. too much sweet or salty

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

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Dialect: var. taniñ

[ɨ̃] inter. yes

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[xapaɁ] v. scrape something off

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[xei] n. cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum)

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[xoɁ] v. crow (as a cock)

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[xomu] n. ritual element of an altar

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[jaɁlã] n. boneless portion of red meat

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Dialect: syn. yo aya’

[jaɉuɁ] n. ladle

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[japjo] n. winnower

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[áagjaɁ] v. come to a wrong place or a wrong way

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