Apatani Dictionary

vt. to winnow.

vt. to undress; to take off one’s clothing.

See: khenji.

n. (Zool.) Ashy Wood-Pigeon (Columba pulchricollis) .

suff. purple; violet (colour). Gramm: adjective root suffixing certain noun roots. Pyakhe. Reddish, early-ripening variety of rice. Sankhe page. Variety of dark blue, slightly translucent glass bead. Jinkhe-jilyin. Wild Karanda (Carissa spinarum), a variety of thorny shrub bearing small fruits of hyacint blue colour.

vt-r. to force someone or something.

vt-r. to undress; to take off one’s clothing.

vt-r. to winnow. Sunku embin khejalado. Sunku is winnowing rice.

n. uppermost shelf of a *dareke, used for storing dried meat, *tapyo, pine splits for torch and salt container. Usage: Bulla. Var: gyai. Usage: Hija.

vt. to scrape something out; to scrape off something. Bije daka kacho mi khapato. Scrape off the dirt on that bamboo!