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Yuki
Etymology
Literally "man-girl". The first element is iwap (“man”).
Noun
íwap náip
- male-bodied person who lives as a woman
See also
References
- Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men →ISBN, 2010)
- Sabrina Petra Ramet, Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures →ISBN, 2002)
- Anna Hadwick Gayton, Stanley Stewart Newman, Yokuts and western Mono myths, volume 5 (1940), page 186: Males were known as iwap-naip (man- girl) and females as musp-iwap-naip (woman man-girl). The former were more common. An ipnaip (abbrev. of iwap-naip) dressed like a woman, spoke in a falsetto, cooked,