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Academic teaching rationale

### gaáfugachagüdayati *“he reproduces well; the male one who reproduces well.”* The form **gaáfugachagüdayati** is built upon the root *áfugachagüdaya*, “to reproduce” (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 *-ti* (3SG.M/AGT), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “he reproduces well; the male one who reproduces well” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **náfugachagüdaya** (“I reproduce”); **báfugachagüdaya** (“you reproduce”): 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. *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Quesada 2017 §3 person-indexation. 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.*