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Academic teaching rationale

### aputihahani *“the (habitual) act of repairing a wall (masonry).”* The form **aputihahani** is built upon the root *aputiha*, “to repair a wall (masonry)” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the element *-hani* (OUFUDA hani), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “the (habitual) act of repairing a wall (masonry)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **naputiha** (“I repair a wall (masonry)”); **baputiha** (“you repair a wall (masonry)”): 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 MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (OUFUDA master suffix family — his exclusive contribution). 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.*