tonocim
Palewyami edit
Noun edit
tonocim
- undertaker, gravedigger
- male-bodied person who dresses and lives as a woman
Usage notes edit
- Use of this term as a reference to the people who in English have come to be termed "two-spirits" was due to the fact that such people traditionally worked as gravediggers, embalmers and professional mourners among the Yokuts.
- Compare Tachi Yokuts tonochim, Kocheyali Yokuts tonoo'tcim.
See also edit
References edit
- Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender (2010, →ISBN