opened its mouth beyond measure

In Gbaya, the notion of the extremely widely opened mouth in Isaiah 5:14 is emphasized with yoŋgolo, an ideophone that expresses the fact of being wide open, excessively so.

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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