Full teaching record
megémecha
verb (inflected)
EN not to light up — N-stem unverified (NEG:N_STEM: circumfix ma-…-un shape is lexical)
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: SOURCE-ATTESTED LEXICAL SENSE
How the form is built
Root: egémecha — light up
negative (Munro & Gallagher) [NEG:M_PREFIX]
Applied laws: NEG:M_PREFIX
Academic teaching rationale
Why — All Garifuna negative verbs carry the prefix m- (analyzed as m-, not ma- — the following vowel varies) attached to the NEGATIVE STEM (N). Usable on the great majority of verbs regardless of semantic class: máfaru numuti 'I didn't hit him'; móumuguutina 'I didn't sleep'; magúndaatina 'I'm not happy'. (Munro & Gallagher, 'Garifuna Negatives' (The Expression of Negation in the Languages of the Americas / UCLA fieldwork, Seine Bight Belize) §B.1 exx.21–25; Taylor 1952a:150 'privative'; corroborates Magarada ma- privative) [FULL-AUTHOR-GRANT]
Voices & attributed examples (0)
No attributed public example is attached to this record yet.
Exact community voice contexts (…)
Occurrence is not definition. These links provide attributed sentence context only; they do not alter this entry's meaning, root, morphology, derivation, translation, evidence state, or elder-review status.
Loading exact community voice contexts…
Open the complete named community voice archiveCommunity orthography candidates—not admitted examples (…)
Review candidate only. Stress marks may differ, but `ü`, `ñ`, letters, apostrophes, hyphens, and token boundaries are preserved. Nothing here changes spelling, meaning, evidence state, or elder-review status.
Loading review-only community orthography candidates…
Review this form across the complete named voice archive