aranu'tiq

Alutiiq

Alternative forms
  • aranu:tiq

Noun

aranu'tiq

  1. (Chugach dialect) an androgyne, third-gender person or hermaphrodite (in Chugach belief, the canonical form of aranu'tiq was male on one side of the body and female on the other)

See also

References
  • Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men (2010, →ISBN
  • Pacific Homosexualities (2002, →ISBN, page 209
  • Many faces of gender (2002), page 18
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