Motion diagram. A Deaf-recorded clip from the PopSign corpus (CC BY 4.0) exists for this sign and can be placed here.
JUMP
“jump”
How to make it
Stand a bent 'V' hand on your other palm and hop it up and down.
Grammar
A first taste of classifiers: the bent V hand stands in for a person's legs and can walk, sit, fall or jump.
Where the sign comes from
IconicThe sign visibly depicts its meaning — a present-day resemblance, not a historical claim.
The bent V is a pair of legs — a classifier for a standing person — and the palm is the ground.
Sources
- ASL-LEX (iconicity)Sehyr, Zed Sevcikova, Naomi Caselli, Ariel Cohen-Goldberg, and Karen Emmorey. "The ASL-LEX 2.0 Project: A Database of Lexical and Phonological Properties for 2,723 Signs in American Sign Language." Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 26, no. 2 (2021): 263–277. link
The sign, taken apart
Every ASL sign is built from a handshape, a place it's made, and a movement. Learn to see these three and you can read and store any sign.
Location
Weak palm
Made at the weak palm.
Movement
up and down
The dominant hand acts on a still base hand.
Repeated. Palm facing down.