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hagülülüha
EN they grumble, murmur, whisper
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: depury lewis · Hererun Wagüchagu · lenguas honduras · LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo · The People’s Garífuna Dictionary
Academic authority: Quesada 2017 §3 person-indexation; Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (subject prefixes)
How the form is built
Root: agülülüha — to grumble, murmur, whisper
- 3PL — Quesada 2017 §3 person-indexation; Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (subject prefixes)
ha- — 3PL [Quesada 2017 §3 person-indexation; Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (subject prefixes)]
Academic teaching rationale
### hagülülüha *“they grumble, murmur, whisper.”* The form **hagülülüha** is built upon the root *agülülüha*, “to grumble, murmur, whisper” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the third-person plural subject prefix *ha-*, marking third-person plural ('they') as the one who acts. Taken whole, the word means precisely “they grumble, murmur, whisper” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **nagülülüha** (“I grumble, murmur, whisper”); **bagülülüha** (“you grumble, murmur, whisper”): 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 Quesada 2017 §3 person-indexation. 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)
anihain agülülüha tuma Neña
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_grantedagülülüha murusun- guaraü [ aban ludin agülülüdágua tuma libe tugia ].Il acción y efecto de secretear |acto de suzurrar al oido.
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bankayanu- ha lau lamarun haun amu [anihain agülülüha tuma Neña ].
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bank
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