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agarabaagúalamuga
EN hopefully (one) will turn over / (one) should turn over
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: COMPOSITIONAL CANDIDATE — elder validation required
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: agarabaagúa — to turn over
- OPT.hope — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)
Paradigm: modal_optative
-lamuga — OPT.hope [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda); Haurholm-Larsen 2016 (irrealis/optative)]
Academic teaching rationale
### agarabaagúalamuga *“hopefully (one) will turn over / (one) should turn over.”* The form **agarabaagúalamuga** is built upon the root *agarabaagúa*, “to turn over” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the hopeful optative *-lamuga*, which voices the action as something hoped for. Taken whole, the word means precisely “hopefully (one) will turn over / (one) should turn over” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **nagarabaagúa** (“I turn over”); **bagarabaagúa** (“you turn over”): 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 *“Adiyura hamuti dasi hádüga wayúnagu dán lé hadügüni wádagimanu apúrichihani agarabaagua Garinagu.”* — ‘They shun the sayings of our Ancestors from our generation when they do the work of anti Garifuna preaching.’. [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
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