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Academic teaching rationale

### waáchuga *“we cut, with a machete or axe.”* The form **waáchuga** is built upon the root *áchuga*, “to cut, with a machete or axe” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the first-person plural subject prefix *wa-*, marking first-person plural ('we') as the one who acts. Taken whole, the word means precisely “we cut, with a machete or axe” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **náchuga** (“I cut, with a machete or axe”); **báchuga** (“you cut, with a machete or axe”): 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. Its stem is corroborated in living usage (triangulation count 1), though a sentence-length citation for this exact form still awaits collection. *The construction rests on Quesada 2017 §3 person-indexation. 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.*