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Academic teaching rationale

### láhingicha *“he functions.”* The form **láhingicha** is built upon the root *áhingicha*, “to function/to shake” (NISAMINA master dictionary). 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 functions” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **náhingicha** (“I function”); **báhingicha** (“you function”): 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 *“Hingintumuta Nela tibiri le tabinaha.”* — ‘Nela shakes her waist when she dances.’ (es: ‘Nela menea su cintura cuando baila.’). [Garifuna Living Dictionary (Munro & Flores) (dict example)] *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.*