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### apinihatuburiha *“she would habitually hang clothes with clothespins / she usually hangs clothes with clothespins.”* The form **apinihatuburiha** is built upon the root *apiniha*, “to hang clothes with clothespins” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it are joined the third-person feminine ('she') agreement suffix *-tu*, which fixes the subject as third-person feminine ('she'); then the habitual suffix *-buriha*, which makes the action one's customary practice — 'would usually, habitually, as a rule'. Taken whole, the word means precisely “she would habitually hang clothes with clothespins / she usually hangs clothes with clothespins” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **napiniha** (“I hang clothes with clothespins”); **bapiniha** (“you hang clothes with clothespins”): 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. *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein perfect-continuous). This is a principled composition — a cited root joined to a cited paradigm — and so it is offered for fluent-elder v