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agumuladuwagubeiyadiwa
EN we have always been being added (continuously / habitually, up to now)
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo
Academic authority: MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)
How the form is built
Root: agumuladuwa — to be added
- PERF.1PL perfect-continuous 'have always been'; on a negative stem = 'never' — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)
Paradigm: aspect
-gubeiyadiwa — PERF.1PL perfect-continuous 'have always been'; on a negative stem = 'never' [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)]
Academic teaching rationale
### agumuladuwagubeiyadiwa *“we have always been being added (continuously / habitually, up to now).”* The form **agumuladuwagubeiyadiwa** is built upon the root *agumuladuwa*, “to be added” (Lila Garífuna Diccionario (Suazo)). To it is joined the perfect-continuous suffix *-gubeiyadiwa* (1PL), which carries 'we have always been …-ing' across all past time; on a negative stem it reads 'we have never been'. Taken whole, the word means precisely “we have always been being added (continuously / habitually, up to now)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **nagumuladuwa** (“I be added”); **bagumuladuwa** (“you be added”): 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 (3)
anihain agumuladuwa yarafa lun gabu- sandu
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedanihain agumuladuwa yarafa lun gabusandu
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_grantedagumuladuwa.(a-gú-mu-la-du-wa)∥| 1 ibiha gumulali|2.
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bank
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