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áhurahaguanarügü
EN only boiling / simply boiling
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: gld · Hererun Wagüchagu · LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo · The People’s Garífuna Dictionary
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)
How the form is built
Root: áhuraha — to boil
- RST 'only / simply / merely' (= -guarugu) — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (constant-habitual -guadügü/-guarügü/-guadugu 'constantly / for no apparent reason'; restrictive -guanarugu 'only / simply / merely'; his attested examples)
Paradigm: magarada_aspect
-guanarugu — RST 'only / simply / merely' (= -guarugu) [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (constant-habitual -guadügü/-guarügü/-guadugu 'constantly / for no apparent reason'; restrictive -guanarugu 'only / simply / merely'; his attested examples)]
Academic teaching rationale
### áhurahaguanarugu *“only boiling / simply boiling.”* The form **áhurahaguanarugu** is built upon the root *áhuraha*, “to boil” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the element *-guanarugu* (RST 'only / simply / merely' (= -guarugu)), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “only boiling / simply boiling” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **náhuraha** (“I boil”); **báhuraha** (“you boil”): 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 *“Áhurahati dúna.”* — ‘The water boiled.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (constant-habitual -guadügü/-guarügü/-guadugu 'constantly / for no apparent reason'). 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 (2)
anuhain áhuraha tau tisâni
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedidaba san láhuraha aigini le
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_granted
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