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Academic teaching rationale

### agurabahawala *“let it wait for / (it) shall wait for.”* The form **agurabahawala** is built upon the root *agurabaha*, “to wait for” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the optative mood *-wala*, which projects the action as something that shall be, or is let to be. Taken whole, the word means precisely “let it wait for / (it) shall wait for” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **nagurabaha** (“I wait for”); **bagurabaha** (“you wait for”): 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 *“Anhein lǘbadün lubéi agurabaha busu o lun letenirun surusia hun, gayaraati hayusuruni dan ligía lun haliihan o lun hadügün amu katei le hemegeirun”*. [05_sentences.CLEAN_2026-06-20] *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda). 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.*