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gumeín

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gumeín



Definitions

  1. EN: sore (silver)

Morphological structure

`gumeín` combines: the root **`gumeí`** + the suffix **`-n`** (USPEC: Underspecified marker on verbs — commonly appears between stem and object/aspect markers. Glosses to USPEC in Haurholm-Larsen.).

Position Form Label Function Academic source
suffix -n USPEC Underspecified marker on verbs — commonly appears between stem and object/aspect markers. Glosses to USPEC in Haurholm-Larsen. Grammar_of_Garifuna p261; Haurholm-Larsen

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

Example sentences (1)

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Cross-source corroboration (2 sources)

  • Garifuna_Living_Dictionary
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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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