sex, gender & sexuality words:
last updated: 8 october, 2024.
yananchay - sexuality
kamamanta - gender (social). (back-formation of latin [genere] meaning type or kind, quechua [kama] meaning kind.)
t’ipip - sex (social & biological). (back-formation of latin [sexūs] meaning section or division, quechua [t’ipi] meaning division.)
chawpit’ipip - intersex.
runa - gender neutral term for human / person.
tinkuy - liminal space of unity, complementary forces, convergence, meeting of elements, roughly translates to nonbinary.
warmi - woman - feminine
qari - man - masculine
tikrachisqa [qari / warmi / runa.] - transgender / transformed people: tikrachisqa qari, tikrachisqa warmi, tikrachisqa runa, so on, so forth.
chakachisqa [qari / warmi / runa.] - transgender / trans meaning extending across, through, or over: crossing people: chakachisqa qari, chakachisqa warmi, chakachisqa runa. (alternative based on cross-linguistic analysis featuring the arabic language term for transgender, old based on transform / change [mutaħawwil] and new based on trans / extending across [ʕābir/ʕābira])
ch’usaq - zero - absent / agender
runapuri - genderfluid
warmiqari - feminine man*
qariqari - masculine man*
qariwarmi - man-woman* / masculine-feminine* / masculine woman* / liminal-gendered / historical transvestite {considered analogous to two-spirit identities in the north.}
warmiwarmi - feminine woman*
chiqan - straight / hetero
chinaku / warminchu - gay (qaripura kuyay - love among men / MLM)
qarinchu / ushuta - lesbian (warmipura kuyay - love among women, basically our way of saying WLW)
q’iwa - translates as necessary or sacred irregularity in life (surprise) or .. as we westerners say… being queer . dotty. pansy-like. a dandy. (also means imperfection, coward, could refer to any number of perceived flaws)
chawpinpashña - demigirl
chawpinmaqta - demiboy
yuquchu - asexual
kuyachu - aromantic
kaqllapura kuyay - homoromantic
chiqanpura kuyay - heteromantic
iskaypura kuyay - biromantic
llapanpura kuyay - panromantic
iskaypura yuquy - bisexual
kaqllapura yuquy - homosexual
chiqanpura yuquy - heterosexual
llapanpura yuquy - pansexual
(*doesnt take sexuality into account FYI)
(green text indicates brand new words)
main sources used:
Wiktionary, QichwaDic 2.0, Promsex, Glosbe