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adarasarawala
EN let it keep back / (it) shall keep back
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: Hadel / Stochl dictionary evidence · new dictionary · The People’s Garífuna Dictionary · stockle carib · 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: adarasara — to keep back
- OPT.shall — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)
Paradigm: modal_optative
-wala — OPT.shall [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)]
Academic teaching rationale
### adarasarawala *“let it keep back / (it) shall keep back.”* The form **adarasarawala** is built upon the root *adarasara*, “to keep back” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the optative mood *-wala*, which projects the action as something that shall be, or is let to be. Taken whole, the word means precisely “let it keep back / (it) shall keep back” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **nadarasara** (“I keep back”); **badarasara** (“you keep back”): 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 *“Wuríbati adarasaraguni le lídan waséinsu, mégeitiwa buídu.”* — ‘This recession in our money is bad, we need goodness (prosperity).’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *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.*
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maudinbá adarasarai wadagümanu
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_granted(a-dá-ra-se-ra Il adarasara |1.
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bankachülüra tarü| 2.adarasara | 3.
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bank
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