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Academic teaching rationale

### tegeyeda *“she deviates.”* The form **tegeyeda** is built upon the root *egeyeda*, “to deviate” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the third-person feminine subject prefix *t-*, marking third-person feminine ('she') as the one who acts. Taken whole, the word means precisely “she deviates” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **negeyeda** (“I deviate”); **begeyeda** (“you deviate”): 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 *“Aban tígiragildiin wanúi to múnadagiñe. Tiabi, tiábi. Lamfdan úma lúmagua, nujein aban tidibu wewe nei, ma tueirin. Lidan tegéyedangubei wanúi to lau tidibu wewe to itara, Úriwa irúmu tau egéyeda lau tídibu wewe to lubá táriúgidiini ima le. surúrugu lun tidin tubáruaguoun. Tugiya fimada, tugúya fimada, tugúya fimada. Tachúliiriin tebénari mansión, aban táwarun lun tugúferan 'one side.'”* (es: ‘Pero en medio del camino había un árbol bastante grande y la chismosa tardó tres años para rodear este árbol y encontrar el camino recto para seguir adelante. Caminó mucho, mucho, y cuando