winkta

Dakota

Etymology

Compare Lakota wíŋkte.

Noun

winkta

1. a two-spirit; a male-bodied person who has a feminine or third-gender/bigender gender role

Usage notes

• In the modern era, the term is sometimes applied to male homosexuals as well.

See also

• two-spirit

References

• Being Dakota: Tales and Traditions of the Sisseton and Wahpeton
• Stephen Return Riggs (et al.), A Dakota-English Dictionary
• Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men →ISBN, 2010)