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Academic teaching rationale

### ábouguaya *“[OUFUDA-family form — precise meaning pending fluent-elder validation].”* The form **ábouguaya** is built upon the root *ábougua*, “to cook abouncha, to bounce” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the element *-guaya* (OUFUDA guaya (pending elder)), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “[OUFUDA-family form — precise meaning pending fluent-elder validation]” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **nábougua** (“I cook abouncha, to bounce”); **bábougua** (“you cook abouncha, to bounce”): 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 *“Nijein aban úraga, tuaguti aban weiriou mutu jau firtiwa tirájúñu. Tagdnoua luma aban weiriei mutu marijinti. Lanúgaru buga weíriei le aban lubuíduri tumoun weiriou to. Irájil to tuma weiriou to, uribati bugáti toúserunu weíriou to irájú to quei mama lubei tiraú. Tifísiuteti irajú to, ábougua, achibagua. Buidumeraiitu tueí, tatu.”* (es: ‘Esta historia trata de una señora que tenía tres hijas. Esa se