winkta
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Dakota[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
winkta
- a two-spirit; a male-bodied person who has a feminine or third-gender/bigender gender role
Usage notes[edit]
- In the modern era, the term is sometimes applied to male homosexuals as well.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- 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)