The interconfessional Chichewa translation (publ. 1999) uses the ideophone see in Song of Songs 7:9 to describe the notion of long, straight, smooth, and penetrating (“when you kiss me, I feel it go straight down my throat”). (Source: Ernst Wendland)
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)
Sere also your neck is like an ivory tower.
