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áraganei
EN I urinate
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: Hererun Wagüchagu · The People’s Garífuna Dictionary · 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: áraga — to urinate
- MOD.1SG — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)
Paradigm: modal_optative
-nei — MOD.1SG [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)]
Academic teaching rationale
### áraganei *“I urinate.”* The form **áraganei** is built upon the root *áraga*, “to urinate” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the modal person suffix *-nei*, placing first-person singular ('I') within the modal (irrealis) series. Taken whole, the word means precisely “I urinate” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **náraga** (“I urinate”); **báraga** (“you urinate”): 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.*
Voices & attributed examples (3)
áraga larauga luai- gien
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedanigira asisiha
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_grantedáraga larauga luaigien
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_granted
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