wergern

Yurok

Alternative forms

  • wrgrn

Etymology

From wen (“woman”) +‎ -eg- with rhotacization.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɚɣɚn/

Noun

wergern

  1. a male-bodied person who lives as a woman, particularly as a shaman

See also

References

  • Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men →ISBN, 2010)
  • Alfred Louis Kroeber, Handbook of the Indians of California →ISBN, 1925), page 46: "One in every several hundred Yurok men, on the average, preferred the life and dress of a woman, and was called wergern."
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