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Greek Effeiminate

          Ancient   Koine   Greek, the word for effeminate is kinaidos [cinaedus in its Latinized form]. A man "who's most salient feature was a supposedly "feminine" love of being sexually penetrated by other men   [Ref-1]         

                   A   cinaedus   is a man who cross-dresses or flirts like a girl. Indeed, the word's etymology suggests an indirect sexual act emenating a promisculous woman. This term has been borrowed from the Greek   kinaidos   (which may itself have come from a language of Ionian Greece of Asia Minor, primarily signifying a purely effeminate dancer who entertained his audiences with a tympanum   or tambourine in his hand, and adopted a lascivious style, often suggestively wiggling his buttocks in such a way as to suggest anal intercourse....The primary meaning of   cinaedus   never died out; the term never became a dead metaphor.

              The Greek   word   Kinaidos [--os --- suffix]   phonetically   resembles   the Tamil  word Kinayian [ Kinai  magan---an--suffix]. Kinaiyan means a drummer playing the    Kinai --the drum in Maruthum--Agricultural  land praising  the landlords.   Kianaiyan  is a   derogatory word  now, among  Tamils   ,probably  ,the drummer ,kinaiyan also  had   danced   as  the  Kinai magal[women]  in female costumes  in the absence of women artists !      

 

“The  Tamil  Vitual University  describes  kinai  related words as below.  [Ref-2-]

                                     

                          

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1.        http://enwikipedia.org/wiki/Effiminancy

 

 

2.             www.tamilvu.org/slet/servlet?/pageno 921

 
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