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Academic teaching rationale

### aragaradaguati *“he is constantly dwindling / the male one who constantly dwindles.”* The form **aragaradaguati** is built upon the root *aragarada*, “to dwindle/ to reduce/ to cut” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the element *-guati* (OUFUDA guati), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “he is constantly dwindling / the male one who constantly dwindles” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **naragarada** (“I dwindle”); **baragarada** (“you dwindle”): 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.*