íwap náip

Yuki

Etymology

Literally "man-girl". The first element is iwap (“man”).

Noun

íwap náip

1. male-bodied person who lives as a woman

See also

• two-spirit

References

• Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men →ISBN, 2010)
• Sabrina Petra Ramet, Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures →ISBN, 2002)
• 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, [...]