One immutable record. No silent merging.

Academic teaching rationale

### edefeidabei *“you wet much or long.”* The form **edefeidabei** is built upon the root *edefeida*, “to wet much or long” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the modal person suffix *-bei*, placing second-person singular ('you') within the modal (irrealis) series. Taken whole, the word means precisely “you wet much or long” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **nedefeida** (“I wet much or long”); **bedefeida** (“you wet much or long”): 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.*