Authority-grounded encyclopedic record
ababagüdahouwa
derived form
to be made something spotted or speckled (passive)
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: SOURCE-ATTESTED LEXICAL SENSE
Teaching authority: rules: MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA + cited academic laws; engine v2 glass-box
How this word is built
Root: ababagüda — To make something spotted or speckled
- MAG:CONTRIB §24 — see LAW_CODEX_v2.1 · MAG:CONTRIB §24
- LARSEN:WA_PASSIVE — see LAW_CODEX_v2.1 · LARSEN:WA_PASSIVE
MAG:CONTRIB §24 [MAG:CONTRIB §24]
LARSEN:WA_PASSIVE [LARSEN:WA_PASSIVE]
Applied laws: MAG:CONTRIB §24 · LARSEN:WA_PASSIVE
Why this matters
Why — -wa creates intransitives from transitives: PASSIVE (erstwhile O becomes S, indexed on the verb; secondary stress on the stem-final syllable) and IMPERSONAL (no argument indexed: áfarùwa=mèha wabésina 'our neighbour was killed'). Combines with clitics (=nege, =buga). (Haurholm-Larsen, S. (2016). A Grammar of Garifuna. PhD diss., Univ. of Bern (collection upload 2026-07-17, full permission/attribution) §6.1.2 exx.175–176) [PRINCIPLES-ONLY — paraphrased]