wergern

== Yurok == === Alternative forms === wrgrn === Etymology === From wen (“woman”) +‎ -eg- with rhotacization. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /wɚɣɚn/ === Noun === wergern a male-bodied person who lives as a woman, particularly as a shaman === See also === two-spirit === 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."