LIST OF COMMON VERBS / VERB ROOTS

Pronunciation tips: Tongue should not touch the upper part of mouth- · while pronouncing the letter ‘n’ in a word as in ‘asin’, · except when ‘n’ is followed by vowel e.g, nu, and while pronouncing derived words from Hindi, Assamese, English etc.

Verb/ Verb roots	Meaning
a	to come, to visit, to go in
aba	to put load over somehing
abi	to make movement
adu	to make sound
age	to stick as with glue
alin	to make something round with palm (clay etc)
alin	to spin yarn into round shape
alo	to drop
ari	to string together (as in necklace of beads)
ase	to wash
asii	to bite
asin	to feed liquid food/ water
ba	to carry (on back of something)
bar	to carry something with helpof bar or rod (with load hanging down from it in middle)
be	to curse
bi	to give
bo	to pull by tying rope on log, animal etc
byu	to suck
cha	to go up, to come up
chi	to bite
chi	to swim as by fish
chi	to throw spear etc.
chin	to know
chu	to spit
da	to stand
daa	to step
dan	to beat with stick etc.
dar	to shove off something with stick etc.
dar	to break, to fall (as in falling of erected pole)
de	to construct fence
dii	to eat
diipfyo	to steal
dintu	to wash ones head
do	to exist
don	to stitch
du	to sit
e	to shoot
ga	to say harsh word
gala	to grip, grasp or to take hold off
ge	to stick with glue
gii	to wear
gii	to put up trap
gii	to move about in fence or wall
go	to fly
go	to take hand span
gonpyu	to wash mouth by gurgling with water
gonko	to open mouth
gonpin	to shut mouth
gu	to crawl with hands and knees or legs
gya	to roam
gyo	to call
gyu	to shout
haar	to dissect
har	to run
hargii	to run away
hasu	to bathe
hika	to smile
hin	to pinch
hu	to pound with log etc
hua	to fall into pit, pond, well, etc
hui	to fall (by dropping)
huro	to wake
imi	to sleep
in	to walk , to go
ja	to move in swaying motion
jar	to throw in air (flat or disc shaped object in a way that it move spinning)
jo	to carry (on shouldier or by hand)
jo	to cut with blade or knife
ka	to see
karo	to peep
ke	to write
ke	to jump with help of stick
khii	to count
khii	to pound with spoon or stick into hole etc
kho	to dig or remove sediment from drain
kho	to make sound (as crowing of rooster)
kii	to punch
ku	to throw (stone etc)
la	to take (with hand)
liipi	to wash ones foot by moving the foot in water
lu	to speak
lyi	to crawl (crawl as snake)
me	to search
men	to kill
mii	to do
mo	to chase
nar	to lend or borrow
ne	to scrape
nen	to smell
ngar	to laugh
nii	to pierce
nii	to strike, thrust or shove against, often with head or horns
non	to call animal by making some sound
nu	to wash cloth
nye	to chew
nyor	to put the feet up and down on mud
o	to work with spade
oho	to feed
pa	to cut with sword
pi	to cut(slicing or sawing)
pur	to pluck fruit
ra	to tie
ri	to throw
ri	to stitch
rii	to buy
rii	to perch (bird)
ro	to snatch
run	to become mad, crazy or insane
san	to grow
sar	to criticize
se	to pull the rope or long plank, bamboo etc by dragging them
sha	to seep or to smoke
shii	to scratch (with fingers)
sii	to die
so	to play
so	to joke
son	to move through rope or horizontal pole, to move up and down on pole or rope
ta	to hear
taa	to cut with spade or axe
taa	to bite(by snake)
tan	to drink or smoke
tar	to break by bending
ti	to pour
tih	to light match stick (by rubbing with mach box)
to	to move down
too	to pick
tooh	to push
tu	to kick
tuh	to pluck leaf, flower etc.
yasii	to wash ones hands