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ágafaguagülei
noun (instrument)
EN the instrument/place for eagernessing
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: SOURCE-ATTESTED LEXICAL SENSE
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Root: ágafagua — eagerness
OP:GULEI [OP:GULEI]
LARSEN:NOMINALIZERS [LARSEN:NOMINALIZERS]
Applied laws: OP:GULEI · LARSEN:NOMINALIZERS
Academic teaching rationale
Why — The instrument for X-ing (óuchahagülei 'fishing ground/gear'). (Magarada §5; academic README (instrumental -güléi)) [PRINCIPLES-ONLY — paraphrased]
Why — Deverbal nominalizer -ni ('act/state'), instrumental -gülèy (the Director's -gülei), nominal association -na, agent-noun formation (the -ti/-tu agentives). (Haurholm-Larsen, S. (2016). A Grammar of Garifuna. PhD diss., Univ. of Bern (collection upload 2026-07-17, full permission/attribution) §3.3.1–3.3.4) [PRINCIPLES-ONLY — paraphrased]
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