Example 20-148

[...] some have three hand [...]
[...]
[...]
some
some
have
have
three
three
hand
hand
[...]
[...]
[...] some have three arms [...].
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours. Talking about Chinese gods, this may be a reference to the goddess Kwun Yam who is also represented as having multiple arms. If so, this would imply that the word hand can include the arm, like the Cantonese sáu.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Morrison 1807-1808: unknown