mix'uga
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Omaha-Ponca[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- miⁿquga
Etymology[edit]
Literally "instructed by the moon", from mi (“moon”) + xu'ga (“instruct”). Compare Chiwere mixo'ge.
Noun[edit]
mix'uga
- a male-bodied person who dresses and lives as a woman, sometimes taking men as partners
- a hermaphrodite (animal) or intersex (person) (in compounds)
- ʇe-miⁿquga — hermaphrodite buffalo
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- 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)