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ébedaguawama
EN let us all constantly light
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: gld · Hererun Wagüchagu · The People’s Garífuna Dictionary · stockle carib · LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo
Academic authority: MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (OUFUDA master suffix family — his exclusive contribution)
How the form is built
Root: ébeda — to light
- OUFUDA guawama — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (OUFUDA master suffix family — his exclusive contribution)
Paradigm: oufuda
-guawama — OUFUDA guawama [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (OUFUDA master suffix family — his exclusive contribution)]
Academic teaching rationale
### ébedaguawama *“let us all constantly light.”* The form **ébedaguawama** is built upon the root *ébeda*, “to light” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the element *-guawama* (OUFUDA guawama), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “let us all constantly light” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **nébeda** (“I light”); **bébeda** (“you light”): 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 *“lun gawarabei lan tayanuhan numa halia lan ebeda”* — ‘this woman yesterday [=I must talk with able to, she could talk with me [about] the final destination so that she is’. [catatu_midwifery_interview_interlinear] *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (OUFUDA master suffix family — his exclusive contribution). 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.*
Voices & attributed examples (3)
baiba ébedai lampu lira
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_grantedbaiba ébedaun luagu
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_grantedi halia lébeda?
Lila Garifuna Diccionario (Salvador Suazo) · attributed_permission_granted
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