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Academic teaching rationale

### digihahamai *“they all look back repeatedly.”* The form **digihahamai** is built upon the root *digiha*, “to look back repeatedly” (NISAMINA master dictionary). To it is joined the modal person suffix *-hamai*, placing third-person plural ('they') within the modal (irrealis) series. Taken whole, the word means precisely “they all look back repeatedly” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. To see its precise force, compare **ndigiha** (“I look back repeatedly”); **bdigiha** (“you look back repeatedly”): 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 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.*