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ORTHODOX: The American Sign Language (ASL) sign for "orthodox"
ORTHODOX [version: flat-O-hand touchers forehead, mid-chest, right-chest, left-chest]
Example in context: See the 1:45 mark of "Episode 9 Eye on Bulgaria Touring Plovdiv, second largest city in Bulgaria" (H3 World TV) Oct 14, 2018.
Sample sentence: Plovdiv is the seat of a Bulgarian Orthodox Eparchy.
Comments: The signer initially misarticulates the sign ORTHODOX-[flat-O] upon first usage in the narrative -- starting to move to the left after touching the mid-chest then correcting and touching the right-chest -- then continuing on to the left-chest contact area.
The signer immediately follows the sign ORTHODOX-[flat-O] by spelling "orthodox" (fs-ORTHODOX).
Several seconds later (at 1:52-1:53 the signer repeats the sign ORTHODOX -- this time more smoothly.
The choice of the signer to follow the first usage of the term with fingerspelling indicates that the signer (or someone in the production team) felt the term needed clarification due to perhaps being somewhat uncommon in the wider Deaf community This is further supported by the fact that the signer misarticulated the sign somewhat on first usage in the narrative. Such factors (fingerspelled expansion and initial use misarticulation) provide clues as to how common a sign or a version of a sign may (or may not) be in the Deaf Community.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ToPXaGx1mE?start=104
Straight-N handshape version of the "cross-chest" version of ORTHODOX at the 20:11 mark of:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/P0zqcNgJKVY?start=1210
-- in reference to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
(again, touching the head, center chest, right, then left.
ORTHODOX [Version: Jewish / dati, frum, observant]
ORTHODOX [initialized "O"+"CLEAN" version]
Sample: See the 2:29 mark of "Jewish signs an educated interpreter should know (2)"
https://www.youtube.com/embed/3twwrXwh6XQ?start=150
Note: CLEAN > pure > orthodox
orthodox / fs-ORX [lexicalized fingerspelling version]
Notes:
See: STRICT
See: MAIN
Compare with initialized versions of PURE and/or HOLY signed in (some) Christian churches. We see the initialized version of HOLY [H scrapes forward from heel of palm toward fingertips] paired with the spirit sign to create the meaning of "the Holy Ghost."
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