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Academic teaching rationale

### gaáwagahati *“he opens mouth repeatedly well; the male one who opens mouth repeatedly well.”* The form **gaáwagahati** is built upon the root *áwagaha*, “to open mouth repeatedly” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). 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 opens mouth repeatedly well; the male one who opens mouth repeatedly well” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **náwagaha** (“I open mouth repeatedly”); **báwagaha** (“you open mouth repeatedly”): 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.*