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Academic teaching rationale

### águdawa *“to burn us.”* The form **águdawa** is built upon the root *águda*, “to burn” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the first-person-plural object suffix *-wa*, which makes 'us' the ones acted upon. Taken whole, the word means precisely “to burn us” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **náguda** (“I burn”); **báguda** (“you burn”): 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 *“Nieni agüda afiahein just over there]”* — ‘Towards just there sustain they exist [-They live’. [catatu_midwifery_interview_interlinear] *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.*