Ishi
[ˈiːʃi]Meaning
adopted name meaning "man" in the Yana language
Background Story
Ishi is an adopted name meaning "man" in the Yana language, given by the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber because Yahi tradition demanded that a person not speak his own name until formally introduced by another Yahi. A user-submitted entry records it as a masculine given name in Yana and a feminine given name in Japanese.
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