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Academic teaching rationale

### lábuna *“he buries.”* The form **lábuna** is built upon the root *ábuna*, “to bury” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the third-person masculine subject prefix *l-*, marking third-person masculine ('he') as the one who acts. Taken whole, the word means precisely “he buries” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **nábuna** (“I bury”); **bábuna** (“you bury”): 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 *“Adára hamuti búri ha bena dán lé ábuna wéyu lún labéluru garábali.”* — ‘They often open the windows when the sun is setting to let the wind in.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on 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.*