OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Hughes (1995): Dobel

ʔayrˈroy-ni

•  second.

Note: ʔayrˈroy-ni (of animate noun), rro (of inanimate), turaw ne ro 'that's the second knife'. The initial consonant of the stressed syllable is reduplicated to from ordinal numbers form cardinal numbers.