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### áfaratu *“she beats strike, hit, kill; the female one who beats strike, hit, kill.”* The form **áfaratu** is built upon the root *áfara*, “to beat, strike, hit, kill” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). 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 beats strike, hit, kill; the female one who beats strike, hit, kill” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **náfara** (“I beat, strike, hit, kill”); **báfara** (“you beat, strike, hit, kill”): 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 *“ladüga leskuelarugu, tidan ligilisi afara hama”* — ‘because in the schools and the churches it was forbidden’. [elar_sg0340_eaf_gold_annotations_43] *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.*