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Academic teaching rationale

### amainirani *“the act of shepherding.”* The form **amainirani** is built upon the root *amainira*, “to shepherd” (NISAMINA master dictionary). 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 shepherding” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Among the forms built on the same root, **namainira** (“I shepherd”); **bamainira** (“you shepherd”): 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 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.*