Historical Sign Language Database
Georgetown University
April 19, 2024
Search: WEEK
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| Entry ID | Book Source | Reference Gloss | Author’s gloss | Description | Page | URL |
| 829 | Higgins (1923) | TIME-PERIOD | WEEK | WEEK: Right index laid prone on left supine palm and lifted up out to the right. (If this hand is lifted up to become "V" hand it denotes two weeks, etc.) (Weekly: "Week" repeated). (Next week: "Next" "Week" or "Future" "Week"). (Last week: "Past" "Week" or "Last" "Week"). | 145 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=829&refid=higgins1923 |
| 709 | Long (1918) | ONE-WEEK-FUTURE | NEXT WEEK, IN A WEEK | NEXT WEEK, or IN A WEEK: Same sign for week, but when the hand is raised to make "one" it is thrown forward to indicate it is in the future. Any number of weeks in the future may be indicated by making any number on the fingers and throwing the hand forward. | 81 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=709&refid=long1918 |
| 710 | Long (1918) | ONE-WEEK-PAST | LAST WEEK, A WEEK AGO | LAST WEEK, A WEEK AGO: Make sign for "week" and then throw hand back over shoulder, palm back. | 81 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=710&refid=long1918 |
| 708 | Long (1918) | WEEK | WEEK | WEEK: Clap the hands together crosswise, raise the right forefinger to represent "one." | 81 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=708&refid=long1918 |
| 638 | Michaels (1923) | WEEK | WEEK | WEEK: 1. Hold your left hand with the fingers spread and far apart before you (for 5). 2. Lay the thumb and index finger of the right hand in the left palm (for 2 more making 7). 3. Push the hands out forward, letting the right hands slip off of the left palm a little further out. | 134 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=638&refid=michaels1923 |
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| Tag ID | Signer(Year) | Reference Gloss | Context | Segment | URL | |
| 278 | Gallaudet (1910) | WEEK | N/A | 3P-IX(lc) CLASS IN CITY(lc) L-Y-N-T-O-N DURING WEEK(rep) SEVERAL(l-hand) | 27 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/films/tablefilm.php?source=gallaudet&glossid=278 |
| 949 | Gallaudet (1910) | WEEK | N/A | LIVE MORE FUTURE WEEK(rep) SEVERAL IMPROVE STRONG | 81 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/films/tablefilm.php?source=gallaudet&glossid=949 |