mix'uga
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)