One immutable record. No silent merging.

Academic teaching rationale

### lapinira *“he pins apinihani.”* The form **lapinira** is built upon the root *apinira*, “to pin apinihani” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the third-person masculine subject prefix *l-*, marking third-person masculine ('he') as the one who acts. Taken whole, the word means precisely “he pins apinihani” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **napinira** (“I pin apinihani”); **bapinira** (“you pin apinihani”): 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 Quesada 2017 §3 person-indexation. 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.*