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óunabahaguanarügü
EN only answering several questions as in a test, quiz or / simply answering several questions as in a test, quiz or
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: COMPOSITIONAL CANDIDATE — elder validation required
Attributed sources: Hererun Wagüchagu · The People’s Garífuna Dictionary
Academic authority: MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (constant-habitual -guadügü/-guarügü/-guadugu 'constantly / for no apparent reason'; restrictive -guanarugu 'only / simply / merely'; his attested examples)
How the form is built
Root: óunabaha — to answer several questions as in a test, quiz or
- RST 'only / simply / merely' (= -guarugu) — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (constant-habitual -guadügü/-guarügü/-guadugu 'constantly / for no apparent reason'; restrictive -guanarugu 'only / simply / merely'; his attested examples)
Paradigm: magarada_aspect
-guanarugu — RST 'only / simply / merely' (= -guarugu) [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (constant-habitual -guadügü/-guarügü/-guadugu 'constantly / for no apparent reason'; restrictive -guanarugu 'only / simply / merely'; his attested examples)]
Academic teaching rationale
### óunabahaguanarugu *“only answering several questions as in a test, quiz or / simply answering several questions as in a test, quiz or.”* The form **óunabahaguanarugu** is built upon the root *óunabaha*, “to answer several questions as in a test, quiz or” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the element *-guanarugu* (RST 'only / simply / merely' (= -guarugu)), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “only answering several questions as in a test, quiz or / simply answering several questions as in a test, quiz or” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **nóunabaha** (“I answer several questions as in a test, quiz or”); **bóunabaha** (“you answer several questions as in a test, quiz or”): each shares the same stem yet bends it to a different shade of meaning, which is exactly how Garífuna wins great precision from a single root. Its stem is corroborated in living usage (triangulation count 1), though a sentence-length citation for this exact form still awaits collection. *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (constant-habitual -guadügü/-guarügü/-guadugu 'constantly / for no apparent reason'). This is a principled comp
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