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Academic teaching rationale

### áhügühati *“he hiccoughs; the male one who hiccoughs.”* The form **áhügühati** is built upon the root *áhügüha*, “to hiccough” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the element *-ti* (3SG.M/AGT), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “he hiccoughs; the male one who hiccoughs” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **náhügüha** (“I hiccough”); **báhügüha** (“you hiccough”): 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. This very form is heard in living speech: *“Áhügühati(m)/tu(fm) kriatura lárigi latun miligi.”* — ‘The baby hiccups after drinking milk.’. [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.*