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agubehawala
EN let it trudge, walk in mud or muddy water agubehani agubiha / (it) shall trudge, walk in mud or muddy water agubehani agubiha
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo · The People’s Garífuna Dictionary
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: agubeha — to trudge, walk in mud or muddy water agubehani agubiha
- OPT.shall — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)
Paradigm: modal_optative
-wala — OPT.shall [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)]
Academic teaching rationale
### agubehawala *“let it trudge, walk in mud or muddy water agubehani agubiha / (it) shall trudge, walk in mud or muddy water agubehani agubiha.”* The form **agubehawala** is built upon the root *agubeha*, “to trudge, walk in mud or muddy water agubehani agubiha” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the optative mood *-wala*, which projects the action as something that shall be, or is let to be. Taken whole, the word means precisely “let it trudge, walk in mud or muddy water agubehani agubiha / (it) shall trudge, walk in mud or muddy water agubehani agubiha” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **nagubeha** (“I trudge, walk in mud or muddy water agubehani agubiha”); **bagubeha** (“you trudge, walk in mud or muddy water agubehani agubiha”): 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)
agubeha aigi- ni
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedanihain agubeha gubebamu ||3. adüdüra- hauwa[ agubeha duna
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedagubeha aduna
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_granted
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