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Academic teaching rationale

### aweiyadatu *“she becomes old; the female one who becomes old.”* The form **aweiyadatu** is built upon the root *aweiyada*, “to become old” (NISAMINA master dictionary). 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 becomes old; the female one who becomes old” — 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 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.*