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, Hillary, Edmund; 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.

• -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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

yeti m (invariable)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

   Synonym: abominevole uomo delle nevi

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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• Rhymes: -ɛti
• Syllabification: ye‧ti

yeti m anim (indeclinable)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

   Synonym: człowiek śniegu

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

• iéti, ieti, yéti

yeti m (plural yetis)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti (unidentified humanoid of the Himalayas)

   Synonym: abominável homem das neves

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): [ˈjeti]

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 Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

• 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