See also: Yeti, yéti, and yètǐ

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

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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[1], 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.

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Descendants

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  • Portuguese: iéti

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Anguthimri

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yeti

  1. (Mpakwithi) bird

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

Czech

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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yeti m anim

  1. (cryptozoology) yeti
    Synonym: sněžný muž

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Further reading

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  • yeti”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Dutch

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Etymology

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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).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈjeː.ti/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ye‧ti

Noun

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

  1. (cryptozoology) yeti
    Synonym: verschrikkelijke sneeuwman

Indonesian

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Etymology

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

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  • IPA(key): /ˈje.ti/
  • Rhymes: -ti
  • Hyphenation: ye‧ti

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yeti

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

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Italian

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yeti m (invariable)

  1. (cryptozoology) yeti
    Synonym: abominevole uomo delle nevi

Polish

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yeti

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Unadapted borrowing from English yeti.

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yeti m animal (indeclinable)

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

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

Portuguese

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Noun

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yeti m (plural yetis)

  1. Alternative form of iéti

Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French yéti.

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yeti m (plural yeti)

  1. yeti, abominable snowman

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Slovak

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Etymology

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

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yeti m anim

  1. (cryptozoology) yeti
    Synonyms: snežný človek m, snežný muž m

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References

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  • 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

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝeti/ [ˈɟ͡ʝe.t̪i]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃeti/ [ˈʃe.t̪i]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒeti/ [ˈʒe.t̪i]

  • Rhymes: -eti
  • Syllabification: ye‧ti

Noun

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yeti m (plural yetis)

  1. (folklore) yeti

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Swedish

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Noun

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yeti c

  1. (cryptozoology) yeti

Turkish

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Pronunciation

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

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yeti (definite accusative yetiyi, plural yetiler)

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

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Inflection
Nominative yeti
Definite accusative yetiyi
Singular Plural
Nominative yeti yetiler
Definite accusative yetiyi yetileri
Dative yetiye yetilere
Locative yetide yetilerde
Ablative yetiden yetilerden
Genitive yetinin yetilerin