One immutable record. No silent merging.

Academic teaching rationale

### emegeiralamuga *“hopefully (one) will lack / (one) should lack.”* The form **emegeiralamuga** is built upon the root *emegeira*, “to lack” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the hopeful optative *-lamuga*, which voices the action as something hoped for. Taken whole, the word means precisely “hopefully (one) will lack / (one) should lack” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **nemegeira** (“I lack”); **bemegeira** (“you lack”): 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 *“Anhaün emegeira lanwoun seinsu lun hagañeinhan ítaga katei, ragǘ humá seinsu lídangiñe le yebe húmabei lun amu katei”*. [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.*