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agumuleduwawala
EN let it be added / (it) shall be added
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo
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: agumuleduwa — to be added
- 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
### agumuleduwawala *“let it be added / (it) shall be added.”* The form **agumuleduwawala** is built upon the root *agumuleduwa*, “to be added” (Lila Garífuna Diccionario (Suazo)). 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 be added / (it) shall be added” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **nagumuleduwa** (“I be added”); **bagumuleduwa** (“you be added”): 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)
anihain agumuleduwa yarafa lun gabu- sandu
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedanihain agumuleduwa yarafa lun gabusandu
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_grantedagumuleduwa.(a-gu-mu-le-dú-wa)|| 1 ibiha gumuleli||2.
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bank
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