-diro

Uneapa

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *-dri + *rua (“two”). Equivalent to -di + rua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ⁿdiro/

Suffix

-diro

1. A third-person dual possessive suffix.

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 365