Today’s word is tondolo (pronounce all the ‘o’s like the ‘o’ in ‘bottle’) [also all in high tones for you linguists out there]
Its definition is interesting: this is my best stab at one…
The state of someone either asleep or dead lying on the ground that doesn’t seem to have any muscle control. Imagine someone who has just collapsed or fainted or suddenly was killed. The way their body looks...sort of arms in weird positions, etc.…that is tondolo.
Can anybody think of a one word English equivalent?
This word (so far this side of testing) is in the Gbaya Bible.
After the surprising defeat of Goliath the Philistines do not make good on their wager of becoming slaves to the Israelites since they lost. Instead they got out of there in a hurry heading to the closest Philistine city for refuge…Ekron. Israel took up the pursuit and killed them as they were fleeing. It is used to describe the dead bodies of the Philistines on the road to Ekron in 1 Samuel 17:52.
They were lying all along the road… tondolo.
Buon inizio settimana...ciao
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