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adilihadugutu
EN she frequently calms (things in general) (aimlessly, with no aim or destination)
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: Hererun Wagüchagu · lenguas honduras · LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo
Academic authority: MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Stark 2018 (diachronic *-thi/*-thu)
How the form is built
Root: adiliha — to calm (things in general)
- FREQ (frequentative, aimless) — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)
- 3SG.F — Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Stark 2018 (diachronic *-thi/*-thu)
Paradigm: aspect
-dugu — FREQ (frequentative, aimless) [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)]
-tu — 3SG.F [Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Stark 2018 (diachronic *-thi/*-thu)]
Academic teaching rationale
### adilihadugutu *“she frequently calms (things in general) (aimlessly, with no aim or destination).”* The form **adilihadugutu** is built upon the root *adiliha*, “to calm (things in general)” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it are joined the frequentative-aimless suffix *-dugu*, which casts the action as habitual yet purposeless — repeated over and over, with no aim or destination; then the third-person feminine ('she') agreement suffix *-tu*, which fixes the subject as third-person feminine ('she'). Taken whole, the word means precisely “she frequently calms (things in general) (aimlessly, with no aim or destination)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **nadiliha** (“I calm (things in general)”); **badiliha** (“you calm (things in general)”): 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. *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous). This is a principled composition — a cited root joined to a cited paradigm — and so it is offered for fluent-elder validation rather than asserte
Voices & attributed examples (3)
anigira a adiliha éreregutiñu 3. ichaha idili|| 4.éseha duna luagu somu katai ibihuti barawa [ adiliha sin- gi
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedchabai lidaun adilihati lun ledérun
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedchabai lidaun adilihati lunledererun
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_granted
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