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akaünhaguanarügü
EN only giving coconut to someone / simply giving coconut to someone
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: Hererun Wagüchagu · LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo
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: akaünha — To give coconut to someone
- 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
### akaünhaguanarugu *“only giving coconut to someone / simply giving coconut to someone.”* The form **akaünhaguanarugu** is built upon the root *akaünha*, “To give coconut to someone” (Lila Garífuna Diccionario (Suazo)). 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 giving coconut to someone / simply giving coconut to someone” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **nakaünha** (“I give coconut to someone”); **bakaünha** (“you give coconut to someone”): 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 (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 (3)
aban ludin akaünha bena tau Meka
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_grantedmayabinbá akaünhana
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_grantedadaünha katai lau tabu tanagan úhabu [aban ludin akaünha bena tau Meka ].
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bank
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