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agubidahati
EN he is possessedby aspirit; the male one who is possessedby aspirit
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: Hererun Wagüchagu · LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo
Academic authority: Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Stark 2018 (diachronic *-thi/*-thu)
How the form is built
Root: agubidaha — to be possessedby aspirit
- 3SG.M/AGT — Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Stark 2018 (diachronic *-thi/*-thu)
-ti — 3SG.M/AGT [Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Stark 2018 (diachronic *-thi/*-thu)]
Academic teaching rationale
### agubidahati *“he is possessedby aspirit; the male one who is possessedby aspirit.”* The form **agubidahati** is built upon the root *agubidaha*, “to be possessedby aspirit” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the element *-ti* (3SG.M/AGT), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “he is possessedby aspirit; the male one who is possessedby aspirit” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **nagubidaha** (“I be possessedby aspirit”); **bagubidaha** (“you be possessedby aspirit”): 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 Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu). 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.*
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anihain liyuna agubidaha lun
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_grantedgubida abaraseha lun linibafu [anihain liyuna agubidaha lun ].
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bank
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