yeti

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See also: Yeti, yéti, and yètǐ

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjɛ.ti/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈjɛ.ti/,
  • Rhymes: -ɛti

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Portuguese: iéti

Translations

Anagrams

Anguthimri

Noun

yeti

  1. (Mpakwithi) bird

References

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

Czech

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ye‧ti

Noun

yeti m anim

  1. (cryptozoology) yeti
    Synonym: sněžný muž

Declension

Declension of yeti (masculine animate in -i/-y)
singular plural
nominative yeti yetiové, yeti
genitive yetiho yetiů, yetich
dative yetimu yetiům, yetim
accusative yetiho yetie, yeti
vocative yeti yetiové, yeti
locative yetim yetiích, yetich
instrumental yetim yetii, yetimi

Further reading

  • yeti in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

Dutch

Etymology

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

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

Noun

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

  1. (cryptozoology) yeti
    Synonym: verschrikkelijke sneeuwman

Indonesian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: yè‧ti

Noun

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.

Further reading

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

Noun

yeti m (invariable)

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

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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yeti

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English yeti.

Pronunciation

Noun

yeti m animal (indeclinable)

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

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Noun

yeti m (plural yetis)

  1. Alternative form of iéti

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French yéti.

Noun

yeti m (plural yeti)

  1. yeti, abominable snowman

Declension

Declension of yeti
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) yeti yetiul (niște) yeti yetii
genitive/dative (unui) yeti yetiului (unor) yeti yetilor
vocative yetiule yetilor

Slovak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Declension

Declension of yeti
singular plural
nominative yeti yetiovia
genitive yetiho yetiov
dative yetimu yetiom
accusative yetiho yetiov
locative yetim yetioch
instrumental yetim yetiami

References

  • “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

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝeti/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃeti/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒeti/

  • Rhymes: -eti
  • Syllabification: ye‧ti

Noun

yeti m (plural yetis)

  1. (folklore) yeti

Further reading

Swedish

Noun

yeti c

  1. (cryptozoology) yeti

Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ye‧ti

Noun

yeti (definite accusative yetiyi, plural yetiler)

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

Declension

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
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