menk

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mansi (compare Northern Mansi менкв (menkv)).

Noun

menk (uncountable)

  1. (Russia, cryptozoology, folklore) An animal described by the Mansi as a "forest giant", with anatomical features similar to a yeti, said to live in the area of Khantia-Mansia, Russia.
    • 1996, Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, page 79:
      This figure is called menk in Ob-Ugrian folklore and ritual.
    • 1999, Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective:
      Although doors were jammed shut, the menk burst in with huge birch masks covered with hair made of hay.
    • 2014, “Mysterious Deaths Of College Students Blamed On ‘Russian Yeti’”, in Huffington Post‎:
      A new documentary, “Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives” airing June 1 on the Discovery Channel explores the remote possibility that a “menk” — the Russian word for Yeti — may have been responsible.

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Noun

menk

  1. Alternative form of menske
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