In Gbaya, the notion of an ongoing process of fainting (and the sense of getting heavier and heavier in the process is emphasized in Lamentations 1:13 with ɗɔ́ŋ-ɗɔ́ŋ, an ideophone that denotes something that is heavy regardless of volume, i.e. it expresses volumeness, volumonosity.

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