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### garibigati *“he perishes well; the male one who perishes well.”* The form **garibigati** is built upon the root *aribiga*, “to perish/ to die” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it are joined the attributive prefix *ga-*, which, set before a verb, says the action is done well or skilfully — and before a noun, 'having / with'; then the element *-ti* (3SG.M/AGT), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “he perishes well; the male one who perishes well” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **naribiga** (“I perish”); **baribiga** (“you perish”): 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 *“Aríbigaa wéiriyei líra.”* — ‘That old man has died. She died from her illness-aribigaa luweigia tisandi. The lady died in her sleep- aribiga lidan tarumugu.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Quesada 2017 §3 person-indexation. This is a principled composition — a cited root joined to a cited paradigm — and so it is