Also in ladino, swallow, swallow. This word appears in a song Sephardic beautiful melody, based on a heartbreak romance, entitled Hixa me, my dear. The version of Ana Alcaide and his companions in the synagogue in the Tránsito of Toledo on You Tube is a beauty. Letter reads as follows: Hixa mia, my dear, / aman, aman, aman, / not throw you into the sea, / to the Sea this enfortuna, / watch that you'll be. / that I take, that I bring, / aman, aman, aman, / seven peaks hondor, / m engluta pexe preto / to save l love. A big fish to swallow me probably alludes to the biblical scene of Jonah and the whale.