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Academic teaching rationale

### afadirihani *“the act of perform the duties of a priesting.”* The form **afadirihani** is built upon the root *afadiriha*, “to perform the duties of a priest” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the nominalising suffix *-ni*, which names the very act or state of the verb. Taken whole, the word means precisely “the act of perform the duties of a priesting” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **nafadiriha** (“I perform the duties of a priest”); **bafadiriha** (“you perform the duties of a priest”): 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 *“ame hamuga lidin afadiriha”* — ‘He should go and become a priest . O sure it still not too late’. [elar_sg0340_eaf_gold_annotations_43] *The construction rests on Quesada 2017 §3.3. 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.*