MORNING in sign language

Good Morning! "I opened two gifts this morning. They were my eyes." -- a meme.

ASL sign for "morning"

"How do you say 'morning' in American Sign Language?"

Definition: The period of time between midnight and noon, especially from sunrise to noon.

Pronunciation (sign description): Dominant flat hand with palm facing upward moves upward and inward while non-dominant hand rests on dominant elbow pit.

Beyond basics

Inflections with the ASL word MORNING such as EVERY-MORNING and ALL-MORNING.

The long movement of this sign signifies for "every morning" or "mornings" which is glossed as EVERY-MORNING.

Pronunciation (sign description): Dominant flat hand with palm facing upward slides from left to right (if right-handed) while non-dominant hand rests on dominant elbow pit.

Meaning: all morning.

The movement is inflected to indicate "all morning".

Pronunciation (sign description): Dominant flat hand with palm facing up moves upward somehow slower than regular while non-dominant hand rests on dominant elbow pit.

Phrases

good morning:

Meaning: Expressing good wishes on meeting or parting during the morning.

Vocabulary

Related words for "morning": DAWN, SUNRISE.

First 100 words.

  1. again
  2. also
  3. ask
  4. bad
  5. boy
  6. but
  7. can
  8. come
  9. deaf
  10. different
  11. drink
  12. drive
  13. eat
  14. email
  15. excuse
  16. family
  17. feel
  18. few
  19. find
  20. fine
  21. fingerspell
  22. finish
  23. food
  24. for
  25. forget
  26. friend
  27. get
  28. girl
  29. give
  30. go
  31. good
  32. have, has, had
  33. he
  34. hearing
  35. hello
  36. help
  37. home
  38. how
  39. Internet
  40. know
  41. later
  42. like (feeling)
  43. little
  44. live
  45. man
  46. many
  47. me
  48. meet
  49. more
  50. my
  51. name
  52. need
  53. new
  54. no
  55. not
  56. now
  57. ok, okay
  58. old
  59. other
  60. please
  61. remember
  62. same
  63. say
  64. school
  65. see
  66. she
  67. should
  68. sign, signed word
  69. slow
  70. some
  71. sorry
  72. store
  73. take
  74. tell
  75. text, sms
  76. thank, thank you
  77. their
  78. they
  79. think
  80. time
  81. tired
  82. try
  83. understand
  84. use
  85. wait
  86. want
  87. what
  88. when
  89. where
  90. which
  91. who
  92. why
  93. will
  94. with
  95. woman
  96. work
  97. write
  98. yes
  99. you
  100. your

As you feel more comfortable with the first few hundreds of ASL signs, progress further with your vocabulary and learn signing more.