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Motion diagram. This sign is outside the licensed video corpus, so the diagram is its full record here.

Everyday·Level 1

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How to make it

Tap the fingertips of two flattened 'O' hands together repeatedly.

Where the sign comes from

Iconic

The sign visibly depicts its meaning — a present-day resemblance, not a historical claim.

Adding one bunch to another, again and again — accumulation.

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
All references and how we grade evidence

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.

Handshape

Fingertips flattened down to meet the thumb (a closed 'beak').

Location
Neutral space

Made at the neutral space.

Movement
a tap

Both hands move together.

Repeated. Palm facing in.

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