One immutable record. No silent merging.

Academic teaching rationale

### akamuruhanei *“I crunch akamukamudaakamuruhani.”* The form **akamuruhanei** is built upon the root *akamuruha*, “to crunch akamukamudaakamuruhani” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the modal person suffix *-nei*, placing first-person singular ('I') within the modal (irrealis) series. Taken whole, the word means precisely “I crunch akamukamudaakamuruhani” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **nakamuruha** (“I crunch akamukamudaakamuruhani”); **bakamuruha** (“you crunch akamukamudaakamuruhani”): 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 MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (modal/optative paradigm, root ex. aguyaguda). 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.*