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asagahaguanarügütiwa
EN we only add, calculate, solve asagahani / we simply add, calculate, solve asagahani (does nothing but add, calculate, solve asagahani)
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: COMPOSITIONAL CANDIDATE — elder validation required
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); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Stark 2018 (diachronic *-thi/*-thu)
How the form is built
Root: asagaha — to add, calculate, solve asagahani
- RST 'only / simply / merely' — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (constant-habitual -guadügü/-guarügü/-guadugu 'constantly / for no apparent reason'; restrictive -guanarugu 'only / simply / merely'; his attested examples)
- 1PL agentive (no prefix) — Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Stark 2018 (diachronic *-thi/*-thu)
Paradigm: magarada_aspect
-guanarugu — RST 'only / simply / merely' [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (constant-habitual -guadügü/-guarügü/-guadugu 'constantly / for no apparent reason'; restrictive -guanarugu 'only / simply / merely'; his attested examples)]
-tiwa — 1PL agentive (no prefix) [Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Stark 2018 (diachronic *-thi/*-thu)]
Academic teaching rationale
### asagahaguanarugutiwa *“we only add, calculate, solve asagahani / we simply add, calculate, solve asagahani (does nothing but add, calculate, solve asagahani).”* The form **asagahaguanarugutiwa** is built upon the root *asagaha*, “to add, calculate, solve asagahani” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it are joined the element *-guanarugu* (RST 'only / simply / merely'), whose force is given by the elder paradigm; then the element *-tiwa* (1PL agentive (no prefix)), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “we only add, calculate, solve asagahani / we simply add, calculate, solve asagahani (does nothing but add, calculate, solve asagahani)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **nasagaha** (“I add, calculate, solve asagahani”); **basagaha** (“you add, calculate, solve asagahani”): 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. While a citation of this exact form still awaits collection, its root is heard in living speech, as in *“ába laríñagun Huan lún. —Maésturu, aríhatiwa ában wügǘri aságahati espíritugu wuríbatiña lídan bíri, keí máma lán wámañein, ába wawéridi
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