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### ayarafadaguatibu *“you are constantly coming near, approach.”* The form **ayarafadaguatibu** is built upon the root *ayarafada*, “to come near, approach” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the element *-guatibu* (OUFUDA guatibu), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “you are constantly coming near, approach” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **nayarafada** (“I come near, approach”); **bayarafada** (“you come near, approach”): 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 *“Sigiméme wamá ayarafada hou íbirigu ha ítarabaña woun kei iduheñu”*. [05_sentences.CLEAN_2026-06-20] *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (OUFUDA master suffix family — his exclusive contribution). 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.*