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winkta

noun

LanguageDakota

Meaning
  1. a two-spirit; a male-bodied person who has a feminine or third-gender/bigender gender role
  2. two-spirit
  3. A two-spirit person is someone who is male-bodied but takes on a feminine or third-gender role.
Examples

Winkta kiŋ he tȟaŋka.

That two-spirit person is big.

Part of speechnoun

Usage noteThis term refers to a specific gender identity in Dakota culture.

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Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) — Wave 5 (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.