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agadeihagueina
EN while ruining
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: Hererun Wagüchagu · LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo · stockle carib
Academic authority: MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)
How the form is built
Root: agadeiha — to ruin
- SIMULTANEOUS 'while' (allomorphs -heina/-guena, elder-confirm per root) — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)
Paradigm: aspect
-gueina — SIMULTANEOUS 'while' (allomorphs -heina/-guena, elder-confirm per root) [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)]
Academic teaching rationale
### agadeihagueina *“while ruining.”* The form **agadeihagueina** is built upon the root *agadeiha*, “to ruin” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the simultaneous suffix *-gueina* ('while'), which sets the action as the backdrop to another — 'while …-ing' (allomorphs -heina/-guena). Taken whole, the word means precisely “while ruining” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **nagadeiha** (“I ruin”); **bagadeiha** (“you ruin”): 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 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 asserted as attested.*
Voices & attributed examples (2)
agadeiha umegeni gabuñati dabarasi |3.
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bankagadeiha umegeni gabuñati dabarasi.
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bank
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