One immutable record. No silent merging.

Academic teaching rationale

### akopuhatei *“she heals someone using a cup.”* The form **akopuhatei** is built upon the root *akopuha*, “to heal someone using a cup” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the modal person suffix *-tei*, placing third-person feminine ('she') within the modal (irrealis) series. Taken whole, the word means precisely “she heals someone using a cup” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **nakopuha** (“I heal someone using a cup”); **bakopuha** (“you heal someone using a cup”): 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.*