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adiligadawala
EN let it feel cold / (it) shall feel cold
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: COMPOSITIONAL CANDIDATE — elder validation required
Attributed sources: Hererun Wagüchagu · new dictionary · The People’s Garífuna Dictionary
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: adiligada — to feel cold
- 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
### adiligadawala *“let it feel cold / (it) shall feel cold.”* The form **adiligadawala** is built upon the root *adiligada*, “to feel cold” (NISAMINA master dictionary). 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 feel cold / (it) shall feel cold” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **nadiligada** (“I feel cold”); **badiligada** (“you feel cold”): 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 *“Gibeti dan hau adíligada dán lé yíin hamá hábien.”* — ‘They often get cold when they are at home.’. [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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