yeti
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English
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Etymology
[edit ]Borrowed from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, "wildman, yeti"), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', "dirt, rust, slate") and དྲེད (dred, "bear"). Attested since 1937.
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]yeti (plural yeti or yetis )
- (cryptozoology ) An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.
- Synonym: abominable snowman
- Coordinate terms: bigfoot , sasquatch , yowie , menk
- 1937 November 13, Balu, "Are The 'Snowmen' Bears?", in The Times[1] , page 13:
- The Sherpas had no hesitation in pronouncing them to be those of a Snowman or "Yeti" (not "mirka" as Mr.Smythe's Tibetans had it), and they thought he was the smaller man-eating variety and not his larger yak-eating brother.[...]They may even have been our friend ursus arctoc pruinosus, but they were no more like the tracks of our "Yeti" than those of a two-toed anteater or an armadillo.
- 1962, Edmund Hillary, Desmond Doig, "Into the Mingbo Valley", in High in the Thin Cold Air: The Story of the Himalayan Expedition, led by Sir Edmund Hillary, sponsored by World Book Encyclopedia[2] , Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 131:
- There is no doubt that the Sherpas accept the fact that the Yeti really exists. But then they believe just as confidently that their gods live in comfort on the summit of Mount Everest. We found it quite impossible to divorce the Yeti from the supernatural.
Derived terms
[edit ]Descendants
[edit ]- → Portuguese: iéti
Translations
[edit ]unidentified animal
- Arabic: يَتِي m (yatī)
- Bulgarian: йети m (jeti)
- Chinese:
- Czech: yeti m, sněžný muž m
- Dutch: yeti (nl) m
- Dzongkha: མི་རྒོད (mi rgod)
- Esperanto: jetio
- Finnish: lumimies (fi) , jeti (fi)
- French: yéti (fr) m
- Georgian: იეტი (ieṭi), თოვლის კაცი (tovlis ḳaci)
- German: Yeti (de) m, Schneemensch (de) m
- Hebrew: יטי
- Hungarian: jeti (hu)
- Indonesian: yeti
- Italian: yeti (it) m
- Japanese: イエティー (ietī), 野人 (ja) (やじん, yajin)
- Korean: 예티 (yeti)
- Macedonian: је́ти n (jéti), сне́жен чо́век m (snéžen čóvek)
- Mongolian: алмас (mn) (almas), цасны хүн (casny xün), мигү (migü)
- Nepali: हिममानव (himmānav)
- Persian: یتی
- Polish: yeti (pl) m
- Portuguese: iéti (pt) m, abominável homem das neves m
- Russian: йе́ти (ru) m (jjéti) (indeclinable), сне́жный челове́к (ru) m (snéžnyj čelovék), бигфу́т (ru) m (bigfút)
- Sherpa: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: yeti m
- Swedish: yeti (sv) c, jeti c, snöman (sv)
- Thai: เยติ (th) (yaydtì)
- Tibetan: མི་རྒོད (mi rgod)
- Ukrainian: йє́ті m (jjéti), є́ті m (jéti), снігова́ люди́на f (snihová ljudýna)
- Vietnamese: người tuyết (vi)
- Yakut: чучунаа (čučunaa)
Anagrams
[edit ]Anguthimri
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]yeti
- (Mpakwithi) bird
References
[edit ]- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 189
Czech
[edit ]Alternative forms
[edit ]Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]yeti m anim
- (cryptozoology ) yeti
- Synonym: sněžný muž
Declension
[edit ]Further reading
[edit ]- "yeti", in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
Dutch
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Probably borrowed from English yeti , from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, "rock bear"), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', "rocky or rocky place") and དྲེད (dred, "bear").
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]yeti m (plural yeti's , diminutive yetietje n)
- (cryptozoology ) yeti
- Synonym: verschrikkelijke sneeuwman
Indonesian
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Borrowed from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, "rock bear").
Pronunciation
[edit ]- (Standard Indonesian ) IPA (key): /jəˈti/ [jəˈt̪i]
- Rhymes: -i
- Syllabification: ye‧ti
Noun
[edit ]yéti (plural yeti-yeti)
- (cryptozoology ) yeti (an unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas )
Further reading
[edit ]- "yeti", in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Italian
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]yeti m (invariable )
- (cryptozoology ) yeti
- Synonym: abominevole uomo delle nevi
Polish
[edit ]
Etymology
[edit ]Unadapted borrowing from English yeti .
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]yeti m animal (indeclinable )
- (cryptozoology ) yeti , abominable snowman (unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas)
- Synonym: człowiek śniegu
Further reading
[edit ]- "yeti", in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- "yeti", in Polish dictionaries at PWN[4] (in Polish)
- yeti in PWN's encyclopedia
Portuguese
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]yeti m (plural yetis )
- alternative form of iéti
Further reading
[edit ]- "yeti", in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Romanian
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Unadapted borrowing from French yéti .
Noun
[edit ]yeti m (plural yeti)
Declension
[edit ]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | yeti | yetiul | yeti | yetii |
| genitive-dative | yeti | yetiului | yeti | yetilor |
| vocative | yetiule | yetilor | ||
Slovak
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Derived from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, "rock bear"), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', "rocky or rocky place") and དྲེད (dred, "bear").
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]yeti m pers
- (cryptozoology ) yeti
- Synonyms: snežný človek m, snežný muž m
Declension
[edit ]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | yeti | yetiovia |
| genitive | yetiho | yetiov |
| dative | yetimu | yetiom |
| accusative | yetiho | yetiov |
| locative | yetim | yetioch |
| instrumental | yetim | yetiami |
Further reading
[edit ]- "yeti", in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026
Spanish
[edit ]Pronunciation
[edit ]
- Rhymes: -eti
- Syllabification: ye‧ti
Noun
[edit ]yeti m (plural yetis )
Further reading
[edit ]- "yeti", in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
Swedish
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]yeti c
Turkish
[edit ]Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]yeti (definite accusative yetiyi , plural yetiler )
- (cryptozoology ) yeti
- (philosophy , psychology ) faculty, skill
Declension
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