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aragachaduguti
EN he frequently wipes (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: aragacha — to wipe
- FREQ (frequentative, aimless) — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)
- 3SG.M — 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)]
-ti — 3SG.M [Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Stark 2018 (diachronic *-thi/*-thu)]
Academic teaching rationale
### aragachaduguti *“he frequently wipes (aimlessly, with no aim or destination).”* The form **aragachaduguti** is built upon the root *aragacha*, “to wipe” (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 masculine ('he') agreement suffix *-ti*, which fixes the subject as third-person masculine ('he'). Taken whole, the word means precisely “he frequently wipes (aimlessly, with no aim or destination)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **naragacha** (“I wipe”); **baragacha** (“you wipe”): 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 *“aragachagüdütu tiroü”* — ‘who aborted her child.’. [FEED:eaf_parallel.dedup] *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous). This is a principled compositio
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