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### gaóuyuahatu *“she carries in one's arms well; the female one who carries in one's arms well.”* The form **gaóuyuahatu** is built upon the root *óuyuaha*, “to carry in one's arms” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it are joined the attributive prefix *ga-*, which, set before a verb, says the action is done well or skilfully — and before a noun, 'having / with'; then the element *-tu* (3SG.F/AGT), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “she carries in one's arms well; the female one who carries in one's arms well” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **nóuyuaha** (“I carry in one's arms”); **bóuyuaha** (“you carry in one's arms”): each shares the same stem yet bends it to a different shade of meaning, which is exactly how Garífuna wins great precision from a single root. While a citation of this exact form still awaits collection, its root is heard in living speech, as in *“barasegu le hadügü buti badeiba suwusie lidan badeiba lúrudu ébuna lidan lúrudu ébuna isi louyersi badeiba óuyuahatu lidan nurüsiañgga”*. [longform_asr_transcripts_26] *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Quesada 2017 §3 person-indexation. This is a principled