From: andythewiros
Message: 65223
Date: 2009-10-13
>(I found the thread in which the above was mentioned). Not that my opinion counts for much, but just based on first impressions I would say something better has to come along: "pinch, squeeze" are not frequently used verbs or concepts (as it seems to me), and hardly the immediate verbs that come to mind when one thinks of "hand" ("grasp, grip, catch, take, give, hold, have", I would say, come to mind much more immediately when one thinks of "hand"). "Compress" is also an action that is not frequently performed by the hands, it seems to me, except when making a fist.
>
> As for 'hand', until something better comes along, I will stick with a derivative of *ken-dH- 'to make compressed, squeeze, pinch' vel sim. as outlined in another thread. Hands may indeed catch (and incite) but the MAIN thing they do is grasp, grip, squeeze, etc.
>
> DGK
>