In Gbaya, the sound and motion of the fountain’s water is emphasized with kput-kput, an ideophone used to describe the sound and motion of bubbling water as in a fresh water spring.

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. Since the subject matter of Songs of Songs is particularly conducive to the use of ideophones, there are a total of 30 ideophones in the Gbaya Bible in that short biblical book alone. (Source: Philip Noss)

See also liquid gushing forth.