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Academic teaching rationale

### áfuratu *“she fans; the female one who fans.”* The form **áfuratu** is built upon the root *áfura*, “to fan” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the element *-tu* (3SG.F/AGT), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “she fans; the female one who fans” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **náfura** (“I fan”); **báfura** (“you fan”): 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 *“Áfura tumuti gunubu weíritu tábulugu múna würínouga.”* — ‘The big storm blew the roof from the house yesterday.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu). 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.*