-diro
Uneapa
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *-dri + *rua (“two”). Equivalent to -di + rua.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ⁿdiro/
Suffix
-diro
- 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