Full teaching record
áhürüchaguarügü
EN in the habit of grating (cassava, coconut) / doing nothing but grating (cassava, coconut)
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: CONTEXT-ATTESTED FORM — source-attributed usage preserved
Attributed sources: Hererun Wagüchagu · LILA Garífuna Diccionario / Salvador Suazo
Academic authority: MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)
How the form is built
Root: áhürücha — to grate (cassava, coconut)
- HABITUAL/RESTRICTIVE 'in the habit of / only' (= -guanarugu) — MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)
Paradigm: aspect
-guarugu — HABITUAL/RESTRICTIVE 'in the habit of / only' (= -guanarugu) [MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous)]
Academic teaching rationale
### áhürüchaguarugu *“in the habit of grating (cassava, coconut) / doing nothing but grating (cassava, coconut).”* The form **áhürüchaguarugu** is built upon the root *áhürücha*, “to grate (cassava, coconut)” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the habitual-restrictive suffix *-guarugu*, which fixes the action as a habit or sole occupation — 'in the habit of …-ing, doing nothing but'. Taken whole, the word means precisely “in the habit of grating (cassava, coconut) / doing nothing but grating (cassava, coconut)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **náhürücha** (“I grate (cassava, coconut)”); **báhürücha** (“you grate (cassava, coconut)”): 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. *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous). 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 (2)
siñá tumutu gain to, áhürücha | hürübaun fáluma to nubá
Salvador Suazo, Lila Garifuna Diccionario A-Y — permission granted · attributed_permission_grantedáhürücha.(á-hü-rü-cha)||áhiacha fálu- ma, gain ligibuogu egi [siñá tumutu gain to, áhürücha | hürübaun fáluma to nubá].||rallar.
Suazo — Lila Garífuna Diccionario (permission granted) · attributed_sentence_bank
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