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Definitions

  1. EN: poor (silver)

Morphological structure

`gudémeti` combines: the root **`gudéme`** + the suffix **`-ti`** (T3.M: third-person masculine singular subject suffix (T-paradigm). Most frequent verb-final suffix in narrative.).

Position Form Label Function Academic source
suffix -ti T3.M third-person masculine singular subject suffix (T-paradigm). Most frequent verb-final suffix in narrative. Grammar_of_Garifuna p138; Stark_PersonMarking p73

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

Example sentences (4)

  • Garifuna: húchecheti ligamisan wügûri gudémeti.
    English: The poor man’s clothes are old and ragged.
    Spanish: La ropa del pobre hombre es vieja y estropeada.
    Source: Garifuna Verified Sentences Corpus (community-hand-verified)
  • Garifuna: Gudémeti iyéri líra, ladûga lumáguwaligun.
    English: That man is poor, because of his laziness.
    Spanish: Ese hombre es pobre, por su pereza.
    Source: Garifuna Verified Sentences Corpus (community-hand-verified)
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Cross-source corroboration (2 sources)

  • Diccionario_Garifuna
    Diccionario Garifuna — public domain.

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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