íwap náip

Yuki

Etymology

Literally "man-girl". The first element is iwap (“man”).

Noun

íwap náip

  1. 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, [...]
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