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### aweiyadawamali *“we have already become old (it) / we just become old (it) — it just happened.”* The form **aweiyadawamali** is built upon the root *aweiyada*, “to become old” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the immediate-perfective suffix *-wamali* (1PL), which reports the action as already completed — 'we have just done it, it just happened' (not a request). Taken whole, the word means precisely “we have already become old (it) / we just become old (it) — it just happened” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **naweiyada** (“I become old”); **baweiyada** (“you become old”): 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 *“Harúga awéiyada nuba, ságü wéyu wawéiyadu.”* — ‘Tomorrow I will become older, we get older every day.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous). This is a principled composition — a cited root joined to a cited paradigm — and so it is offere