leaving him half dead

In Gbaya, the notion of leaving the beaten man behind in Luke 10:30 is emphasized with tɔ̀kɔ̀rɔ̀, an ideophone that expresses the act of abandoning something, such as a corpse, or of being abandoned.

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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