the light of my eyes -- it also has gone from me

In Gbaya, the notion of dime eyes in Psalm 38:10 is emphasized with tamtuɗum, an ideophone that expresses indistinct, vague, blurred vision.

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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