question about signwriting's configurations

[Mark Mandel]

The "heel of the hand" is the lower part of the palm, next to the wrist (more or less quoting OED): the part of the hand that is analogous to the heel of the foot.

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Mark A. Mandel
Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania



On 11.05.02, at 4:19 PM, Claudia S. Bianchini wrote:

> Hello
> I'm Claudia Savina Bianchini and I'm a PhD student at ISTC-CNR (in the team created by +Elena Pizzuto+), in Rome.
> ...
>  
> My problem (for glyphes from 1 to 7) is that I've searched everywhere but I can't find a translation for "heel" that has nothing to do with feet. So my question is: is there feet's configuration on SW? and, if yes... why? I've never seen any deaf making configurations with their feet!
> And I really can't understand the explanation for glyphe 8.
> 
> Maybe all this problem is caused by my horrible English?!?!