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ágawaguanarügütiña

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EN they only bathe / they simply bathe (does nothing but bathe)

Meaning & authority

Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved

Attributed sources: gld · Hererun Wagüchagu · lenguas honduras · The People’s Garífuna Dictionary

Academic authority: MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (constant-habitual -guadügü/-guarügü/-guadugu 'constantly / for no apparent reason'; restrictive -guanarugu 'only / simply / merely'; his attested examples); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Stark 2018 (diachronic *-thi/*-thu)

How the form is built

Root: ágawa — to bathe

  • RST 'only / simply / merely' — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (constant-habitual -guadügü/-guarügü/-guadugu 'constantly / for no apparent reason'; restrictive -guanarugu 'only / simply / merely'; his attested examples)
  • 3PL agentive (no prefix) — Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Stark 2018 (diachronic *-thi/*-thu)

Paradigm: magarada_aspect

-guanarugu — RST 'only / simply / merely' [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (constant-habitual -guadügü/-guarügü/-guadugu 'constantly / for no apparent reason'; restrictive -guanarugu 'only / simply / merely'; his attested examples)]

-tiña — 3PL agentive (no prefix) [Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Stark 2018 (diachronic *-thi/*-thu)]

Academic teaching rationale

### ágawaguanarugutiña *“they only bathe / they simply bathe (does nothing but bathe).”* The form **ágawaguanarugutiña** is built upon the root *ágawa*, “to bathe” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it are joined the element *-guanarugu* (RST 'only / simply / merely'), whose force is given by the elder paradigm; then the element *-tiña* (3PL agentive (no prefix)), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “they only bathe / they simply bathe (does nothing but bathe)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **nágawa** (“I bathe”); **bágawa** (“you bathe”): 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 *“béiba ágawa,Fulési.”* — ‘Please, go take a bath.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (constant-habitual -guadügü/-guarügü/-guadugu 'constantly / for no apparent reason'). This is a principled composition — a cited root joined to a cited paradigm — and so it is offered for flu

Voices & attributed examples (2)
  1. tügüba fiafia ágawa lámugaun

    Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_granted
  2. Fulési, béiba ágawa.

    Garifuna Living Dictionary (Munro and Flores) · attributed_permission_granted
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