Cree

Alternative forms

• ᐁᔨᐦᑵᐤ ‎(eyihkwew)
• ayekkwew; aayahkweew, eeyihkweew; ayākwāo; ayihkwew

Noun

êyihkwêw

1. a male-bodied trans-, bi- or third-gender person; two-spirit
2. a castrated animal

References

• Online Cree Dictionary, creedictionary.com
• Walter L. Williams, The Spirit and the Flesh (1992, ISBN 0807046159), page 83: For example, the Cree word for berdache, ayekkwew, can be translated as "neither man nor woman" or "man and woman." […] A Plains Cree berdache was named Piecuwiskwew because, according to Cree informants, Piecuw was a man's name and Iskwew was a woman's name—"half and half just like he^[sic] was."
• Edwin Arthur Watkins, A dictionary of the Cree language (1865)
• Alberta Elders' Cree Dictionary