Posture the dominant hand in the “Y” handshape about half arm’s length in front of the dominant side of the chest, dominant palm facing down. The ulnar side of the hand or the little finger itself should be pointing toward the first object or reference location.
Move the dominant hand side-to-side (toward the second object, then back toward the first, then back toward the second).
Posture the dominant hand in the “Y” handshape about half arm’s length in front of the dominant side of the chest, dominant palm facing down. The radial side of the hand or the thumb itself should be pointing toward the second object or reference location.
Hold the dominant hand briefly in this posture.
Hold-move chart for Y@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown Sidetoside
dominant
hand
(strong)
type
contour
plane
quality
local movement
hold
move
Hand configuration
Part of hand Proximity Spatial relation Contact location
Part of hand facing
Facing location
Part of hand oriented
Plane of orientation
(transitive, with an identified subject and a yet-to-be-identified object) to be like (something); to seem the same as (something); to be similar to (something)
YOUR FAMILY LIKE WHAT? — “What is your family like?”
The forms given above, with side-to-side movement, are used with subjects located at or referenced from opposite sides of the signer. For objects located at or referenced from other locations, the ulnar edge of the hand and the thumb point toward those locations and the hand moves between them:
