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Academic teaching rationale

### aküinchati *“he grinds; the male one who grinds.”* The form **aküinchati** is built upon the root *aküincha*, “to grind/ to gnash/ to clank/ to creak” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the element *-ti* (3SG.M/AGT), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “he grinds; the male one who grinds” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **naküincha** (“I grind”); **baküincha** (“you grind”): 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). 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.*