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Academic teaching rationale

### ayumahani *“the act of yearning.”* The form **ayumahani** is built upon the root *ayumaha*, “to yearn” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the nominalising suffix *-ni*, which names the very act or state of the verb. Taken whole, the word means precisely “the act of yearning” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **nayumaha** (“I yearn”); **bayumaha** (“you yearn”): 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. This very form is heard in living speech: *“Anhein siñá lubéi hárügüdagun houngua ani peligurutiña luéi hadügün somu katei wíyeti, ru lumuti Pábulu adundehani le houn: “Anhein siñá lubéi hágüdaagun houngua, maríei hamá, ladüga buítimati hamarieidun sügǘ lau hágudun lau ayumahani” ( 1 Korintuna ). 8 Lanwoun lira, ha busenbaña hamarieidun, moun lumuti heyeedagun houngua”*. [05_sentences.CLEAN_2026-06-20] *The construction rests on Quesada 2017 §3.3. 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.*