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Academic teaching rationale

### éheluchagubeiyanu *“they have always been licking éheluchuni (continuously / habitually, up to now).”* The form **éheluchagubeiyanu** is built upon the root *éhelucha*, “to lick éheluchuni” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it is joined the perfect-continuous suffix *-gubeiyanu* (3PL), which carries 'they have always been …-ing'; on a negative stem it reads 'they have never been' (cf. meigigubeiyanu 'they have never eaten'). Taken whole, the word means precisely “they have always been licking éheluchuni (continuously / habitually, up to now)” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Placed beside its siblings, **néhelucha** (“I lick éheluchuni”); **béhelucha** (“you lick éheluchuni”): 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 *“éhelucha hamutu búri ha óunli dilítu háni íraünu lídan maríhin hamaa.”* — ‘The dogs often lick the children's ice cream when they are not looking.’. [FEED:verified_sentences] *The construction rests on MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA 2026-06-24 (eibuga aspect family: -dugu frequentative / -gubeiyein per