mix'uga

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Omaha-Ponca

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Alternative forms

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  • miⁿquga

Etymology

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Literally "instructed by the moon", from mi (moon) + xu'ga (instruct). Compare Chiwere mixo'ge.

Noun

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mix'uga

  1. a male-bodied person who dresses and lives as a woman, sometimes taking men as partners
  2. a hermaphrodite (animal) or intersex (person) (in compounds)
    ʇe-miⁿquga — hermaphrodite buffalo

See also

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References

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  • A Study of Siouan Cults : Moon and Stars as Wakandas, in the Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-'90 (publishe 1894)