musp-íwap náip

Yuki

Etymology

Literally "woman man-girl" or "female íwap náip". The first element is musp (“woman”), the second is iwap (“man”), the last means "girl".

Noun

musp-íwap náip

1. female-bodied person who lives as a man

See also

• two-spirit

References

• 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, [...]
• Sabine Lang, Männer als Frauen, Frauen als Männer (1990)
• Bonnie Zimmerman, Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures →ISBN