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### abulubudagubeila *“(one) may as well lower the wick of the lamp.”* The form **abulubudagubeila** is built upon the root *abulubuda*, “to lower the wick of the lamp” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the concessive-optative mood *-gubeila*, which offers the action as something one may as well do. Taken whole, the word means precisely “(one) may as well lower the wick of the lamp” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **nabulubuda** (“I lower the wick of the lamp”); **babulubuda** (“you lower the wick of the lamp”): 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 *“Abulubudatu Warúguma lídan barana lidan luburiga ságü gúyoun.”* — ‘Warúguma submerges in the sea in the darkness every night.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda). This is a principled composition — a cited root joined to a cited paradigm — and so it is offered for fluent-elder validation rather than asserted as attested.*