laden with fruit

In Gbaya, the notion of the tree laden with fruit in Sirach 50:10 is emphasized with wɔsɔkɔɗɔ, an ideophone expressing the abundance of fruit on a tree that has produced a lot.

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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