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aguriridagualamuga
EN hopefully (one) will be gathered around someone / (one) should be gathered around someone
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: COMPOSITIONAL CANDIDATE — elder validation required
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: aguriridagua — to be gathered around someone
- OPT.hope — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)
Paradigm: modal_optative
-lamuga — OPT.hope [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)]
Academic teaching rationale
### aguriridagualamuga *“hopefully (one) will be gathered around someone / (one) should be gathered around someone.”* The form **aguriridagualamuga** is built upon the root *aguriridagua*, “to be gathered around someone” (Lila Garífuna Diccionario (Suazo)). To it is joined the hopeful optative *-lamuga*, which voices the action as something hoped for. Taken whole, the word means precisely “hopefully (one) will be gathered around someone / (one) should be gathered around someone” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **naguriridagua** (“I be gathered around someone”); **baguriridagua** (“you be gathered around someone”): 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 (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.*
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