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Academic teaching rationale

### amurigaraütu *“she combs amuriguni a little; the female one who combs amuriguni.”* The form **amurigaraütu** is built upon the root *amuriga*, “to comb amuriguni” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it are joined the attenuative suffix *-raü*, which softens the action to a partial or occasional degree — 'a little, somewhat, now and then'; then the third-person feminine ('she') agreement suffix *-tu*, which fixes the subject as third-person feminine ('she'). Taken whole, the word means precisely “she combs amuriguni a little; the female one who combs amuriguni” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **namuriga** (“I comb amuriguni”); **bamuriga** (“you comb amuriguni”): 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 *“ánhein hugúya, dán lé hayúnarun, amúriga humeí hídiburi, chibá humeíme higíbu”*. [05_sentences.CLEAN_2026-06-20] *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Suazo (diminutive -rau/-raü). This is a principled composition — a cited root joined to a cited paradigm — and so