In Gbaya, the notion of a small remainder is emphasized with mbiɗi-mbiɗi, an ideophone device of repetition used here to describe little bits of best beer (the cultural equivalent to well-aged wines”) that remained to be drunk at the very end of a sumptuous feast.

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)