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aríahahamugala
EN (one) should spy on
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: aríaha — to spy on/to scrutinize
- OPT.should — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)
Paradigm: modal_optative
-hamugala — OPT.should [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)]
Academic teaching rationale
### aríahahamugala *“(one) should spy on.”* The form **aríahahamugala** is built upon the root *aríaha*, “to spy on/to scrutinize” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the obligative mood *-hamugala*, which frames the action as what ought to happen. Taken whole, the word means precisely “(one) should spy on” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **naríaha** (“I spy on”); **baríaha** (“you spy on”): 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. While a citation of this exact form still awaits collection, its root is heard in living speech, as in *“lun heidi ariaha wadagumanu, uwati wadagimanu.”* — ‘to look for work or jobs, there are no jobs.’. [elar_sg0340_eaf_gold_annotations_43] *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)
anigira aríaha layabuhan tidan kómpeni tugia
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedanigira aríaha wada- gimanu
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedanigira aríaha wada- gümanu
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_granted
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