One immutable record. No silent merging.

Academic teaching rationale

### eferidiratei *“she loses eferidiruni.”* The form **eferidiratei** is built upon the root *eferidira*, “to lose eferidiruni” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). 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 loses eferidiruni” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **neferidira** (“I lose eferidiruni”); **beferidira** (“you lose eferidiruni”): 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 *“Anhein eferidira amu humada bandi seinsu gayarati hamuga harisidun lun híderaguni”*. [05_sentences.CLEAN_2026-06-20] *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.*