paro ro ohe
|
‘five hens’
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hen five
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aro roxe
|
‘six mornings’
|
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morning six
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p kù
kukanuhe
|
dove seven
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dove seven
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aki kipinye
|
‘eight dogs’
|
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dog eight
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|
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nesu sukoahe
|
nine brans’
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bran nine
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alye lyelya
|
‘ten doors’
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door ten
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paku kulyahela
kue
|
‘eleven plates’
|
|
plate eleven
|
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pano ronixahe
|
‘twenty hens’
|
|
hen twenty
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aki kinyo
|
‘small dog’
|
|
dog small
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|
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alyi lyiro
|
‘big pig’
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|
pig big
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|
|
| Adjective |
| There is no separate class
of words which are adjectives as such. There are certain verbs which
are used as adjectives as well. When they occur with nouns, they follow
the headnoun. When the numeral adjective is also present, the numeral
adjective follows the qualifying adjective. |
|
myu aya
|
‘good man’
|
|
ma good
|
|
|
myu aya ako
|
‘one good man’
|
|
man good one
|
|
san
oho
|
‘tall tre’
|
|
tree tall
|
|
|
|
| The determiners follow the
adjective when they occur with them |
myu aya h
|
‘good man (remote)’
|
|
man good det
|
|
|
san oho si
|
‘tall tree (proximate)’
|
|
tree tall det
|
|
|
|
| Verb |
| Any word that can take tense is deemed
to be a verb in the present study. An overwhelming majority of verbs
is monosyllabic. In Apatani, verbs are added to the main verb to modify
its inherent meaning. Such verbs are called verb particles in the
present work. There are instances where the same verb is used as the
main verb and verb particles. Also, there are cases where separate
items are used as main verb and as verb particle. For example, the
item - me ‘kill’ is used whenever it is used as a main verb and the
item - xi ‘kill’ is used whenever it is added as a verb particle to
modify the main verb. Another interesting feature noticed is the contrast
between non-proximal past and proximal past on the one hand and proximal |
