musp-íwap náip

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Yuki

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Etymology

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Literally "woman man-girl" or "female íwap náip". The first element is musp (woman), the second is iwap (man), the last means "girl".

Noun

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musp-íwap náip

  1. female-bodied person who lives as a man

See also

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References

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  • 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, [...]
  • Sabine Lang, Männer als Frauen, Frauen als Männer (1990)
  • Bonnie Zimmerman, Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures →ISBN