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ásuhagubeirügüla
EN (one) may as well vary (just)
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 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)
How the form is built
Root: ásuha — to vary
- OPT.aswell.rst — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)
Paradigm: modal_optative
-gubeirugula — OPT.aswell.rst [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)]
Academic teaching rationale
### ásuhagubeirugula *“(one) may as well vary (just).”* The form **ásuhagubeirugula** is built upon the root *ásuha*, “to vary” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the restrictive concessive mood *-gubeirugula*, which narrows 'may as well' to 'may just as well'. Taken whole, the word means precisely “(one) may as well vary (just)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **násuha** (“I vary”); **básuha** (“you vary”): 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 *“Mini lan san le aban lan meha wügüri méreti, ásuhati ani hanufudeti ligía?”*. [05_sentences.CLEAN_2026-06-20] *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)
anihain ásuha lubá lasurusuhan hadan mutu I 2. layanuhan mutu egeyehaina luai li- chigun ánharuni luagu somu adügaü[ wairiti lerederun wügüri le ásuha lubá ladügün aban katai
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedanihain ásuha lubá lasurusuhan hadan mutu
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_grantedwairiti lerederun wügüri le ásuha lubá ladügün aban katai
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_granted
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