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heiguadügütu
EN she frequently falls (aimlessly, with no aim or destination)
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: COMPOSITIONAL CANDIDATE — elder validation required
Academic authority: MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Stark 2018 (diachronic *-thi/*-thu)
How the form is built
Root: heigua — to fall
- FREQ (frequentative, aimless) — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)
- 3SG.F — Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Stark 2018 (diachronic *-thi/*-thu)
Paradigm: aspect
-dugu — FREQ (frequentative, aimless) [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)]
-tu — 3SG.F [Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Stark 2018 (diachronic *-thi/*-thu)]
Academic teaching rationale
### heiguadugutu *“she frequently falls (aimlessly, with no aim or destination).”* The form **heiguadugutu** is built upon the root *heigua*, “to fall” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it are joined the frequentative-aimless suffix *-dugu*, which casts the action as habitual yet purposeless — repeated over and over, with no aim or destination; then the third-person feminine ('she') agreement suffix *-tu*, which fixes the subject as third-person feminine ('she'). Taken whole, the word means precisely “she frequently falls (aimlessly, with no aim or destination)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **nheigua** (“I fall”); **bheigua** (“you fall”): 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 *“Aguyedaguaguda lumuti wügüri lé gíri bei Hárabaganali luágu dúna wuríbati (gubégubeti), méreti heigua.”* — ‘The man named Hárabaganali slipped on the bad water (mud), he has no strength (he fell down).’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MA
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