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winkte

winkte

See also: wíŋkte

German

Verb

winkte

First-person singular preterite of winken.
Third-person singular preterite of winken.
First-person singular subjunctive II of winken.
Third-person singular subjunctive II of winken.

Lakota

Alternative forms

wintke

Etymology

Derives from an old Lakota word, winyanktehca, that contracted through long use.

Noun

winkte

A "two-souls-person" or more directly, "to be as a woman" and applies to male-bodied individuals. A gender-variant male-bodied individual in Lakota Sioux culture.

References

Winyanktehca: Two-souls person by Dr. NapéWastéWiñ
Directions in Gender Research in American Indian Societies: Two Spirits and Other Categories by Beatrice Medicine