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Definitions

  1. EN: very serious sickness; grievious illness (silver)

Morphological structure

`hanügün` combines: the prefix **`ha-`** (3.PL: third-person plural subject and possessor prefix. Homographic with the demonstrative há (see particle paradigm).) + the root **`nügü`** + 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 (2)

  • Garifuna: Éibugatiña wügüriña águyu báranahagiñe dán lé hanügün údüraü lun heígini iráhüñü.
    English: The men walk homeward from the sea when they bring fish for the children to eat.
    Spanish: Los hombres caminan hacia casa desde el mar cuando traen pescado para que los niños coman.
    Source: Garifuna Verified Sentences Corpus (community-hand-verified)
  • Garifuna: Tímawati agürahouni lun wóunigiruni iyáwei dán lé hanügünwa tidan guríara báranaha giñe.
    English: Binding is important for protecting the Wanaragua shells when they are taken in the boat from the sea.
    Spanish: La unión es importante para proteger las conchas de Wanaragua cuando son tomadas en el barco desde el mar.
    Source: Garifuna Verified Sentences Corpus (community-hand-verified)

Cross-source corroboration (2 sources)

This headword is corroborated by 2 foundation source(s); 0 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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