One immutable record. No silent merging.

Academic teaching rationale

### magiribudati *“he does not return.”* The form **magiribudati** is built upon the root *agiribuda*, “to return” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it are joined the privative-negative prefix *m-*, which negates the action or denies the quality outright; then the third-person masculine ('he') agreement suffix *-ti*, which fixes the subject as third-person masculine ('he'). Taken whole, the word means precisely “he does not return” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **nagiribuda** (“I return”); **bagiribuda** (“you return”): 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 *“Afiñetiña meha gumese lan Weyu agiribuda 25 lidan Duusu-hati”*. [05_sentences.CLEAN_2026-06-20] *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Munro & Gallagher, 'Garifuna Negatives' (m- verbal negation). 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.*