One immutable record. No silent merging.

Academic teaching rationale

### ekeherana *“they have complained (present perfect — Suazo).”* The form **ekeherana** is built upon the root *ekehera*, “to complain” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the perfect-continuous suffix *-gubeiyein*, which stretches the action across all past time up to the present, 'has always been …-ing' (the *-yein* marking a masculine subject). Taken whole, the word means precisely “they have complained (present perfect — Suazo)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **nekehera** (“I complain”); **bekehera** (“you complain”): 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 Suazo, Conversemos en garífuna (Guaymuras 1991/1994) — principle recorded with attribution. 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.*