Authority-grounded encyclopedic record
ababagüdañaha
verb (inflected)
they had made something spotted or speckled
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:TENSES — Magarada Named Tense Paradigm (Law 7)
- LARSEN:CLITICS — see LAW_CODEX_v2.1 · LARSEN:CLITICS
Named Tense (Magarada Law 7) [MAG:TENSES]
LARSEN:CLITICS [LARSEN:CLITICS]
Applied laws: MAG:TENSES · LARSEN:CLITICS
Why this matters
Why — Every a-initial vowel-final verb root generates eleven named tenses (46 forms/verb): MÉBEHATI infinitive · GUMADI imperative (-bá) · UGUNETI present (T-series) · SÜGÜHALI preterite/present perfect (D-series: arihadina) · LANÜGÜÑA FULASU present continuous (prefix+-iña) · ANINTEGIWA future (prefix+-uba) · ME future perfect · SÜGÜHALI BUGA past continuous · SÜGÜHALIHA past perfect (-ha) · ANINTEINA future continuous (- (Magarada Codified Law 7; Liyawa Dimúrei; Learning Garífuna Vol I; Suazo antepresent corroboration (arihadina)) [FULL-AUTHOR-GRANT]
Why — Clausal tense-aspect is carried by enclitics: =buga past, =meha distant past, =ha distributive; clitics combine in fixed orders. (Haurholm-Larsen, S. (2016). A Grammar of Garifuna. PhD diss., Univ. of Bern (collection upload 2026-07-17, full permission/attribution) §7.6.1–7.6.4) [PRINCIPLES-ONLY — paraphrased]