ᓯᐱᓂᖅ

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Inuktitut[edit]

Noun[edit]

ᓯᐱᓂᖅ (Latin sipiniq, plural ᓯᐱᓃᑦ)

  1. intersex person, person born with ambiguous genitalia, person with genitalia which (in the Inuit belief) changed at birth
  2. person raised in a gender that does not match their birth sex (i.e. a female-bodied person raised as a male, or a male-bodied person raised as a female)

References[edit]

  • Pamela R Stern, Daily Life of the Inuit (2010, →ISBN and Historical Dictionary of the Inuit (2013, →ISBN
  • Rose Dufour (1975)