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naguyemeha
EN I marry or be married to someone from a particular household or family aguyemehani
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: Hererun Wagüchagu · The People’s Garífuna Dictionary · LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo
Academic authority: Quesada 2017 §3 person-indexation; Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (subject prefixes)
How the form is built
Root: aguyemeha — to marry or be married to someone from a particular household or family aguyemehani
- 1SG — Quesada 2017 §3 person-indexation; Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (subject prefixes)
n- — 1SG [Quesada 2017 §3 person-indexation; Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (subject prefixes)]
Academic teaching rationale
### naguyemeha *“I marry or be married to someone from a particular household or family aguyemehani.”* The form **naguyemeha** is built upon the root *aguyemeha*, “to marry or be married to someone from a particular household or family aguyemehani” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the first-person singular subject prefix *n-*, marking first-person singular ('I') as the one who acts. Taken whole, the word means precisely “I marry or be married to someone from a particular household or family aguyemehani” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **baguyemeha** (“you marry or be married to someone from a particular household or family aguyemehani”); **laguyemeha** (“he marries or be married to someone from a particular household or family aguyemehani”): 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 Quesada 2017 §3 person-indexation. 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)
aguyemehati túbiñeun mama
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_grantedari hamuti aguyemeha ñeihin
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_grantedebeluhati ide- ha túbiñe adari [ aguyemehati túbiñeun mama ].
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bank
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