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achugehawamei
EN we all trip, cause to
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: Hererun Wagüchagu · LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo · The People’s Garífuna Dictionary
Academic authority: MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)
How the form is built
Root: achugeha — to trip, cause to
- MOD.1PL — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)
Paradigm: modal_optative
-wamei — MOD.1PL [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)]
Academic teaching rationale
### achugehawamei *“we all trip, cause to.”* The form **achugehawamei** is built upon the root *achugeha*, “to trip, cause to” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the modal person suffix *-wamei*, placing first-person plural ('we') within the modal (irrealis) series. Taken whole, the word means precisely “we all trip, cause to” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **nachugeha** (“I trip, cause to”); **bachugeha** (“you trip, cause to”): 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 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda). 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 (3)
ariha bâ- mugai nachugehan ñei
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedariha bámugai nachugehan ñei
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_grantedachugeha.(a-chu-ge-ha)||labuguhan lugudi mutu luagu somu katai [ ariha bâ- mugai nachugehan ñei ].
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bank
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