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

• two-spirit
• Chugach § Genders on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

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