mix'uga

Omaha-Ponca

Alternative forms

• miⁿquga

Etymology

Literally "instructed by the moon", from mi (“moon”) + xu'ga (“instruct”). Compare Chiwere mixo'ge.

Noun

mix'uga

1. a male-bodied person who dresses and lives as a woman, sometimes taking men as partners
2. a hermaphrodite (animal) or intersex (person) (in compounds)

   ʇe-miⁿquga — hermaphrodite buffalo

See also

• two-spirit

References

• A Study of Siouan Cults : Moon and Stars as Wakandas, in the Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-'90 (publishe 1894)