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Academic teaching rationale

### ébechaguawama *“let us all constantly scold, censure.”* The form **ébechaguawama** is built upon the root *ébecha*, “to scold, censure” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the element *-guawama* (OUFUDA guawama), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “let us all constantly scold, censure” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **nébecha** (“I scold, censure”); **bébecha** (“you scold, censure”): 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 *“Ani ébecha lumutiña hagübüri lumadagu Hobu”*. [05_sentences.CLEAN_2026-06-20] *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (OUFUDA master suffix family — his exclusive contribution). 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.*