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### águhawamei *“we all drop (various things one by one, various times).”* The form **águhawamei** is built upon the root *águha*, “to drop (various things one by one, various times)” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the modal person suffix *-wamei*, placing first-person plural ('we') within the modal (irrealis) series. Taken whole, the word means precisely “we all drop (various things one by one, various times)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **náguha** (“I drop (various things one by one, various times)”); **báguha** (“you drop (various things one by one, various times)”): 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 *“anagua yagieye lun la lidi aguhayan funa baranahou ya lanagou bei”* — ‘carry them from here maybe to go and throw them into the sea. Hence the reason why he took,’. [elar_sg0340_eaf_gold_annotations_43] *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda). This is a principled composition — a cited root joine