Apatani English

[aʎeɁ ago] n. doorstep

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[ahi] n. tooth

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[aháa] n. string; cord

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Dialect: syn. agyú

[amu] n. hair

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[beɁtũ] v. shrink; contract; become smaller

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[bɨɉǝr] n. market; bazaar

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[bɨso] adj. afraid; scared; terrified

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[bée] v. chant; invoke

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[cãcã] adj. cold (to the touch); chilly; gelid

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[daɲi cago] n. east

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Dialect: syn. haaci

[dobɨ-takǝr alo] n. Thursday

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[doodu] n. drop

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[ʎiiʎiɁ] adj. horrifying

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Dialect: syn. aha fiifi’

[gehe] v. yawn

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gimbjo] n. a meat portion, containing the thoracic cage

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[ha] v. come; arrive; enter

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Dialect: syn. áa

[hẽpũ-hẽka] v. be confused

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[hẽxɨ-milĩ] adj. scarce; meager; in short supply

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Dialect: syn. heñxw

[hiɁ] v. feel; search with hand

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

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[hoɁko-hoɁpe] adj. tangled; knotty

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huɁpaɁ-huɁja] adj. lavish; extravagant

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[hɨɉã lɨhaɁ] n. small cane basket used as the container of food contributed during birth of a newborn by the mother’s mother

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɨbo] n. bull

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hù] v. prick; stab

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[ipaɁ tamiɁ] n. green bottle fly (Lucilla sp.)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ĩgu] v. change direction or destination of going

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[ɉeɁmeɁ] adj. flat; deflatted

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉiʎũ] n. Indian strawberry (Potentilla indica)

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Dialect: syn. jifiñ

[ɉiʎá] n. coarse silk

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[ka] v. see; look at

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[kadú] v. look upwards

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[kako talo] n. mirror

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Dialect: syn. kvrv talo; kako yalo; kvlo yalo, kwrv talo

[kanu] num. seven

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

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Dialect: syn. kape’-kase’

[kapjóɉaɁpa] adv. firstly

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[karo] v. spy; peep

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[kedu] n. an agricultural implement of short wooden digging stick used to make holes for planting paddy or millet

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[kinɨ] n. bitch

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[koojo] n. the night before the last

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[koju tapjo] n. coccyx; tail bone

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[kurmu] n. grasshopper

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Dialect: var. kormu

[luxaɁ] v. speak wrongly

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. lugya’

[lɨdì] n. base; bottom; way; footprint

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[lɨrĩ] n. kneelet comprising of string of beads, esp. worn by priests

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[maló] adj. big; huge; renowned

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[mẽli] v. kill as revenge

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Dialect: var. meli

[miɁɉũ] adj. lethargic or inactive (of a person)

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[miʎĩ] n. tip (of a plant or a tree)

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[migĩ] n. expert hunter

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[miimaɁ] n. a variety of hebaceous plant whose slender leaves are used to tie bundles of paddy or millet plant (Miscanthus sinensis)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[miɉuɁ] adj. cowardly; timid

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Dialect: syn. miju’ mija

[mitai] n. sweet

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[mɨɉaɁ] v. tear something by handing it

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[mɨpaɁ] v. remove; spend

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[mɨrí] n. charcoal

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[nami] n. portion of village, esp. the upper one

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. nako

[nar] v. borrow

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

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[nɨri pɨsa] n. a variety of pine; Himalayan hemlock (Tsuga dumosa)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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Dialect: syn. lwri pwsa

[paʎù] n. a variety of bird; parakeet

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[pageɁ] v. light a fire; set fire; ignite

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[pamí] n. chicken louse

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[poɁlã] n. grass

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[poi] n. residual fermented millet after preparation of beer

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[pukũ hóonɨ] n. a close relative of Muruñ sponsor who takes care of the food and drinks for pukuñ participants

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[puluɁ] v. cover

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[puɲó] adj. small (of spherical objects)

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Dialect: ant. purò

[pɨló] n. lever

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[pɨrɨ] n. wooden boundary of a hearth

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pɨta sihɁ] n. puddle or pond where birds gather to drink water

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[ŋɨi taxũ] n. fish trap

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[raɁtĩ] v. fasten (as of a door)

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[rica] v. throw something upwards

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Dialect: ant. rilo

[sado] n. boyfriend; male lover

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Dialect: syn. miya

[sakori] n. job; employment

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[sarxe sarse] n. a late ripening variety of millet

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[sãtũ] n. generation

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[sɨre] n. wild pig; boar

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[sɨso] n. wild cat

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[sɨɨ ixa] n. cow dung

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[tagɨ] v. learn (by listening)

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[tamjo] n. a variety of tree

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[tamù] n. a deity

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[tape] n. pumpkin

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Dialect: syn. e’pe; ayó twpe

[tartu] v. break

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[tarì] n. hail

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[taɲó] adj. small in number; few in numbers

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Dialect: syn. tozó ant. tarò

[telĩ] v. push something out

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Dialect: ant. telw’ etym. teñ + aliñ

[temaɁ] v. touch

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Dialect: etym. teñ + mwma’ syn. mwma’

[ɨpɨɁ] v. sweep

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[xe] v. force something

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[xeɁlɨɁ] v. put on; cover

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Dialect: ant. xe’liñ

[xɨɨ] v. boil; cook

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[janu] adj. calm; peaceful; slow

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[jasã] n. firewood; wood

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[jaɨ] n. axe

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[ɲibjoɁ] v. get free (as from a taboo period)

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[ɲime-jaru] n. rainbow

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[ácì] adv. very; to a high degree

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