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adireihaguarügü
EN in the habit of straining / doing nothing but straining
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: COMPOSITIONAL CANDIDATE — elder validation required
Academic authority: MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)
How the form is built
Root: adireiha — to strain/ to filter
- HABITUAL/RESTRICTIVE 'in the habit of / only' (= -guanarugu) — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)
Paradigm: aspect
-guarugu — HABITUAL/RESTRICTIVE 'in the habit of / only' (= -guanarugu) [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)]
Academic teaching rationale
### adireihaguarugu *“in the habit of straining / doing nothing but straining.”* The form **adireihaguarugu** is built upon the root *adireiha*, “to strain/ to filter” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the habitual-restrictive suffix *-guarugu*, which fixes the action as a habit or sole occupation — 'in the habit of …-ing, doing nothing but'. Taken whole, the word means precisely “in the habit of straining / doing nothing but straining” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **nadireiha** (“I strain”); **badireiha** (“you strain”): 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 *“Adireiha tumuti nágütu mibi lídan rugúma lun táfuridagüdüni lira merumati.”* — ‘My grandmother filters the cassava pulp in the snake-like woven squeezer to get the cyanide (poisonous liquid) out.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous). This is a principled composition — a cited root joined to a c
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