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ábarachaguagubei
EN (one) may as well constantly splash oneself
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: Hererun Wagüchagu · LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo
Academic authority: MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (OUFUDA master suffix family — his exclusive contribution)
How the form is built
Root: ábaracha — to splash oneself
- OUFUDA guagubei — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (OUFUDA master suffix family — his exclusive contribution)
Paradigm: oufuda
-guagubei — OUFUDA guagubei [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (OUFUDA master suffix family — his exclusive contribution)]
Academic teaching rationale
### ábarachaguagubei *“(one) may as well constantly splash oneself.”* The form **ábarachaguagubei** is built upon the root *ábaracha*, “to splash oneself” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the element *-guagubei* (OUFUDA guagubei), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “(one) may as well constantly splash oneself” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **nábaracha** (“I splash oneself”); **bábaracha** (“you splash oneself”): 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 (OUFUDA master suffix family — his exclusive contribution). 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)
aban tábarachuni tuariuwa
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_grantedbaiba ábarachai himerugún
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_grantedachüra 3.ábaracha aban katai meseiwínhali lun himerugún [ naibuga águra ifei ].
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bank
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