yeti

From Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛ.ti/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjɛ.ti/, [ˈjɛ.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -ɛti

yeti (plural yeti or yetis)

1. (cryptozoology) An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.

   Synonym: abominable snowman

   Coordinate terms: bigfoot, sasquatch, yowie, menk

   • 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, 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.

• → Portuguese: iéti

• -iety, yite

yeti

1. (Mpakwithi) bird

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 189

• yetti

• IPA^(key): [ˈjɛtɪ]
• Hyphenation: ye‧ti

yeti m anim

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

   Synonym: sněžný muž

• yeti in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjeː.ti/

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• Hyphenation: ye‧ti

yeti m (plural yeti's, diminutive yetietje n)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

   Synonym: verschrikkelijke sneeuwman

From Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈjɛti]
• Hyphenation: yè‧ti

yèti (first-person possessive yetiku, second-person possessive yetimu, third-person possessive yetinya)

1. yeti: An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.

• “yeti” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

yeti m (invariable)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

   Synonym: abominevole uomo delle nevi

Unadapted borrowing from English yeti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛ.ti/

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• Rhymes: -ɛti
• Syllabification: ye‧ti

yeti m animal (indeclinable)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti, abominable snowman (unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas)

   Synonym: człowiek śniegu

• yeti in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• yeti in Polish dictionaries at PWN

yeti m (plural yetis)

1. Alternative form of iéti

Unadapted borrowing from French yéti.

yeti m (plural yeti)

1. yeti, abominable snowman

Derived from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈjeci]

yeti m anim (genitive singular yetiho, nominative plural yetiovia, genitive plural yetiov, declension pattern of kuli)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

   Synonyms: snežný človek m, snežný muž m

• “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, 2024

• Rhymes: -eti
• Syllabification: ye‧ti

yeti m (plural yetis)

1. (folklore) yeti

• “yeti”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

yeti c

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

• IPA^(key): [jeti]
• Hyphenation: ye‧ti

yeti (definite accusative yetiyi, plural yetiler)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti
2. (philosophy, psychology) faculty, skill