tripod-traypod

I asked for "tiripod", he stood motionless, meaning that he did not understand what I have said. I tried to make an image of the tripod with my hands, index and middle fingers wide open, looking downwards and another finger from left hand making the third leg of it. with this image, a 5 second sculptural representation of the object of "tripod" and with the mispronounced sound image suspending in the air, he said-asked "oo traypod".