do not love sleep

In Gbaya, the notion of not loving sleep (and accordingly getting up early in Proverbs 20:13 is emphasized with sút, an ideophone that refers to early morning.

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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