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Academic teaching rationale

### ünabudagua *“to constantly abate, to go dowr / to be in the act of abate, to go dowring.”* The form **ünabudagua** is built upon the root *ünabuda*, “to abate, to go dowr” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the continuous/middle suffix *-gua*, which holds the subject in the ongoing act — 'to be constantly …-ing'. Taken whole, the word means precisely “to constantly abate, to go dowr / to be in the act of abate, to go dowring” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **nünabuda** (“I abate, to go dowr”); **bünabuda** (“you abate, to go dowr”): 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 *“Abiruahati niraü, mégeiti látun árani híduru unabudaguda lamuga.”* — ‘My child is feverish, he needs to drink herbs to bring it down.’. [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.*