Datapoint Jamaican/'Hand' and 'arm'

Cassidy & Le Page (1967: 219) define han (s.v. HAND) as 'the arm: any part or all of the arm, including the hand'. They go further to point out that '[t]his usage is now less common than it once was'. It is likely that their comment regarding the reduced frequency of this sense of the word was prompted by their inability to find any illustrative quotations as support.

However, hand/arm identity is currently a pervasive feature of Jamaican Creole which suggests that Cassidy & Le Page may have underestimated the frequency of this phenomenon.

Values

Identity

Example 8-167:
Im lik mi pan mi han rait tap-said mi elbo.
Im
3sg
lik
lick
mi
1sg
pan
on
mi
1sg
han
hand
rait
right
tap-said
top-side
mi
1sg
elbo.
elbow
He hit me on my arm just above my elbow.
Confidence:
Very certain