Motion diagram. A Deaf-recorded clip from the PopSign corpus (CC BY 4.0) exists for this sign and can be placed here.
TOY
“toy”
How to make it
Hold two 'T' hands out in front of you and twist them at the wrist.
Where the sign comes from
DocumentedDerivation traced in historical-linguistic scholarship.
Initialized with T, using the twisting movement of PLAY (which uses Y hands). An initialized variant of an existing sign.
Sources
- Battison 1978 (initialization)Battison, Robbin. Lexical Borrowing in American Sign Language. Silver Spring, MD: Linstok Press, 1978.
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
Neutral space
Made at the neutral space.
Movement
a twist of the wrist
Both hands move together.
Repeated. Palm facing out.