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### águharu *“she has dropped (various things one by one, various times) (present perfect — Suazo).”* The form **águharu** is built upon the root *águha*, “to drop (various things one by one, various times)” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the present-perfect suffix *-ru* (3SG.F, Suazo), 'she has V-ed'. Taken whole, the word means precisely “she has dropped (various things one by one, various times) (present perfect — Suazo)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **náguha** (“I drop (various things one by one, various times)”); **báguha** (“you drop (various things one by one, various times)”): 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 *“anagua yagieye lun la lidi aguhayan funa baranahou ya lanagou bei”* — ‘carry them from here maybe to go and throw them into the sea. Hence the reason why he took,’. [elar_sg0340_eaf_gold_annotations_43] *The construction rests on Suazo, Conversemos en garífuna (Guaymuras 1991/1994) — principle recorded with attribution. This is a principled composition — a