many to lie unburied

In Gbaya, the notion of numerous (“many to lie unburied”) in 2 Maccabees 5:10 is emphasized with ŋgoɗoso, an ideophone that designates things that are numerous, in clusters, in bundles.

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

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