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áhuyawamali

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EN we have already rained áhuyuni áhuyúni (it) / we just rained áhuyuni áhuyúni (it) — it just happened

Meaning & authority

Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved

Attributed sources: gld · Hererun Wagüchagu · LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo

Academic authority: MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)

How the form is built

Root: áhuya — to rain áhuyuni áhuyúni

  • IPFV.1PL (immediate perfective 'already / just happened', NOT permissive) — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)

Paradigm: aspect

-wamali — IPFV.1PL (immediate perfective 'already / just happened', NOT permissive) [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)]

Academic teaching rationale

### áhuyawamali *“we have already rained áhuyuni áhuyúni (it) / we just rained áhuyuni áhuyúni (it) — it just happened.”* The form **áhuyawamali** is built upon the root *áhuya*, “to rain áhuyuni áhuyúni” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the immediate-perfective suffix *-wamali* (1PL), which reports the action as already completed — 'we have just done it, it just happened' (not a request). Taken whole, the word means precisely “we have already rained áhuyuni áhuyúni (it) / we just rained áhuyuni áhuyúni (it) — it just happened” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **náhuya** (“I rain áhuyuni áhuyúni”); **báhuya** (“you rain áhuyuni áhuyúni”): 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. This very form is heard in living speech: *“ahuyawamali wayanei namulenu”* — ‘The rain has come down on us, my children.’. [elar_sg0340_eaf_gold_annotations_43] *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 cited paradigm — and so it is offere

Voices & attributed examples (3)
  1. áhuya huya

    Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_granted
  2. láhuya huya

    Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_granted
  3. áhuya dibisa hau

    Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_granted
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