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Academic teaching rationale

### éñeguhawamali *“we have already extinguished e.g., candles, fires éñeguhani éñegura (it) / we just extinguished e.g., candles, fires éñeguhani éñegura (it) — it just happened.”* The form **éñeguhawamali** is built upon the root *éñeguha*, “to extinguish, e.g., candles, fires éñeguhani éñegura/éñegurau, embers” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the immediate-perfective suffix *-wamali* (1PL), which reports the action as already completed — 'we have just done it, it just happened' (not a request). Taken whole, the word means precisely “we have already extinguished e.g., candles, fires éñeguhani éñegura (it) / we just extinguished e.g., candles, fires éñeguhani éñegura (it) — it just happened” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **néñeguha** (“I extinguish, e.g., candles, fires éñeguhani éñegura”); **béñeguha** (“you extinguish, e.g., candles, fires éñeguhani éñegura”): 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 *“Éñegucha lumuti éñeguhati watu tuagu tidibu góubana.”* — ‘The fir