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### ibihawamali *“we have already acquired get, obtain (it) / we just acquired get, obtain (it) — it just happened.”* The form **ibihawamali** is built upon the root *ibiha*, “to acquire, get, obtain” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the immediate-perfective suffix *-wamali* (1PL), which reports the action as already completed — 'we have just done it, it just happened' (not a request). Taken whole, the word means precisely “we have already acquired get, obtain (it) / we just acquired get, obtain (it) — it just happened” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **nibiha** (“I acquire, get, obtain”); **bibiha** (“you acquire, get, obtain”): 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 *“Íbiha tumutu hiñaru liduburi irahu lau siseru.”* — ‘The woman clips the child's hair with scissors.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous). This is a principled composition