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Definitions

  1. EN: to refuse. See (silver)

Morphological structure

`hamahan` combines: the prefix **`ha-`** (3.PL: third-person plural subject and possessor prefix. Homographic with the demonstrative há (see particle paradigm).) + the root **`maha`** + 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
prefix ha- 3.PL third-person plural subject and possessor prefix. Homographic with the demonstrative há (see particle paradigm). Stark_PersonMarking p31; Grammar_of_Garifuna passim
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)

  • Garifuna: táhamahaña aba dunuru
    Source: ELAR / SOAS Endangered Languages Archive, SG0340 — Arumahani / Abaimahani (traditional Garifuna songs). Session: James Lovell’s dream, El sueño de James Lovell, O sonho de James Lovell. Participant: None.
    — Source link
    — License: ELAR O_OpenAccess; attribution required; per-item license review required for pu

Cross-source corroboration (2 sources)

  • Hererun_Wagüchagu_Dimurei_Agei_Garifuna
    Hererun Wagüchagu Dimurei Agei Garífuna — used with respect for the work; full author permission outreach pending.

This headword is corroborated by 2 foundation source(s); 1 are named publicly. Additional corroborators contribute to confidence scoring but are not named in this public output due to permission scope.

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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