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Academic teaching rationale

### akakühati *“he patches holes; the male one who patches holes.”* The form **akakühati** is built upon the root *akaküha*, “to patch holes” (NISAMINA master dictionary). 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 patches holes; the male one who patches holes” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **nakaküha** (“I patch holes”); **bakaküha** (“you patch holes”): 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. *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.*