despoiled

In Gbaya, the notion of the chaos described in Isaiah 59:15 is emphasized with vá̧í̧-vá̧í̧, an ideophone that describes a thing trampled to the ground, thrown into disorder.

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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