winkta
Dakota
Etymology
Compare Lakota wíŋkte.
Noun
winkta
- 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)