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agaranadaina
EN becoming thick (gerund / present-continuous — Suazo)
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: Hererun Wagüchagu · LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo · new dictionary · The People’s Garífuna Dictionary · stockle carib
Academic authority: Suazo, Conversemos en garífuna (Guaymuras 1991/1994) — principle recorded with attribution; authorship Suazo
How the form is built
Root: agaranada — to become thick
- GERUND 'V-ing' — Suazo, Conversemos en garífuna (Guaymuras 1991/1994) — principle recorded with attribution; authorship Suazo
Paradigm: academic
-ina — GERUND 'V-ing' [Suazo, Conversemos en garífuna (Guaymuras 1991/1994) — principle recorded with attribution; authorship Suazo]
Academic teaching rationale
### agaranadaina *“becoming thick (gerund / present-continuous — Suazo).”* The form **agaranadaina** is built upon the root *agaranada*, “to become thick” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the gerund suffix *-ina* (Suazo), which turns the verb into its ongoing action — 'V-ing'. Taken whole, the word means precisely “becoming thick (gerund / present-continuous — Suazo)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **nagaranada** (“I become thick”); **bagaranada** (“you become thick”): 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 *“Agaranadati gumánana wáturugu dán lé lébelurun ásüra.”* — ‘The sweet cassava (gumánana) thickens in the oven when it enters the fire to roast.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on Suazo, Conversemos en garífuna (Guaymuras 1991/1994) — principle recorded with attribution. 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)
igirabaun wewe to lun tagaranadun
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedagaranada [ tadibuneda irahü to ].
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bank
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