One immutable record. No silent merging.

Academic teaching rationale

### ayeehanei *“I lie (characteristic, continued action).”* The form **ayeehanei** is built upon the root *ayeeha*, “to lie (characteristic, continued action)” (NISAMINA master dictionary). 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 lie (characteristic, continued action)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **nayeeha** (“I lie (characteristic, continued action)”); **bayeeha** (“you lie (characteristic, continued action)”): 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 *“Ñíñein ában wügǘri lídan fulásu ligía, gíriti Simón, gabíñarahati méha, lǘñahaali ayéehaña gürígia Samariána láu laríñagun hoún luágu máma lán furúmieguarügü gürígia ligía”*. [05_sentences.CLEAN_2026-06-20] *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 v