One immutable record. No silent merging.

Academic teaching rationale

### agiribudaina *“returning (gerund / present-continuous — Suazo).”* The form **agiribudaina** is built upon the root *agiribuda*, “to return” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the gerund suffix *-ina* (Suazo), which turns the verb into its ongoing action — 'V-ing'. Taken whole, the word means precisely “returning (gerund / present-continuous — Suazo)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **nagiribuda** (“I return”); **bagiribuda** (“you return”): 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 *“Afiñetiña meha gumese lan Weyu agiribuda 25 lidan Duusu-hati”*. [05_sentences.CLEAN_2026-06-20] *The construction rests on Suazo, Conversemos en garífuna (Guaymuras 1991/1994) — principle recorded with attribution. 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.*