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Definitions

  1. EN: be bad (silver)

Morphological structure

`WÜRIBA` combines: the root **`würi`** + the suffix **`-ba`** (FUT | EXTR: Intermediate-future tense suffix (-ba); also serves as the relative-clause / extractor (-EXTR) marker when followed by a person suffix. Same lexeme synchronically, different functions.).

Position Form Label Function Academic source
suffix -ba FUT | EXTR Intermediate-future tense suffix (-ba); also serves as the relative-clause / extractor (-EXTR) marker when followed by a person suffix. Same lexeme synchronically, different functions. Grammar_of_Garifuna p138, p259-261

Framework: Haurholm-Larsen et al. — *A Grammar of Garifuna*; Stark *Person Marking*; Barchas-Lichtenstein; Munro *Negatives in Garifuna*; documented in 02_paradigms/

Example sentences (2)

  • Garifuna: Esémehatina luwéi nadûgü würibati.
    English: I swore off doing bad things.
    Spanish: Juré que no haría cosas malas.
    Source: Garifuna Verified Sentences Corpus (community-hand-verified)
  • Garifuna: Wuríbatu abiyarahouni tó, adügatu würibani hóun gürígiya.
    English: This witchcraft is bad, it causes evil to the people.
    Spanish: Esta brujería es mala, causa maldad a la gente.
    Source: Garifuna Verified Sentences Corpus (community-hand-verified)

Cross-source corroboration (1 source)

  • Garifuna_Living_Dictionary
    See this entry also at the Living Dictionaries platform: https://livingdictionaries.app/garifuna/

See also

  • Garifuna Living Dictionaries — This headword is also documented at the Living Dictionaries platform — visit their entry for additional community-contributed material.
Academic paradigm citations (Haurholm-Larsen framework)
  • Haurholm-Larsen, S. *A Grammar of Garifuna*. Brill (2016).
  • Haurholm-Larsen, S. *Clitics, affixes, and wordhood in Garifuna*.
  • Stark, T. *Person marking in Garifuna* (Stanford).
  • Munro, P. *Negatives in Garifuna*.
  • Barchas-Lichtenstein, J. *Garifuna* (Ph.D. dissertation).
  • Cayetano, E. R. *Towards a Common Garifuna Orthography* (NGC, 1992).

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