yeti
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]yeti (plural yeti or yetis)
- (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.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Portuguese: iéti
Translations
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Anagrams
[edit]Anguthimri
[edit]Noun
[edit]yeti
- (Mpakwithi) bird
References
[edit]- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 189
Czech
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]yeti m anim
- (cryptozoology) yeti
- Synonym: sněžný muž
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “yeti”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]yeti m (plural yeti's, diminutive yetietje n)
- (cryptozoology) yeti
- Synonym: verschrikkelijke sneeuwman
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]yeti
- (cryptozoology) yeti (an unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas)
Further reading
[edit]- “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.
Italian
[edit]Noun
[edit]yeti m (invariable)
- (cryptozoology) yeti
- Synonym: abominevole uomo delle nevi
Polish
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Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English yeti.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]yeti m animal (indeclinable)
- (cryptozoology) yeti, abominable snowman (unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas)
- Synonym: człowiek śniegu
Further reading
[edit]- yeti in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- yeti in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- yeti in PWN's encyclopedia
Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]yeti m (plural yetis)
- Alternative form of iéti
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French yéti.
Noun
[edit]yeti m (plural yeti)
Declension
[edit]Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]yeti m anim
- (cryptozoology) yeti
- Synonyms: snežný človek m, snežný muž m
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- “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
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eti
- Syllabification: ye‧ti
Noun
[edit]yeti m (plural yetis)
Further reading
[edit]- “yeti”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]yeti c
Turkish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]yeti (definite accusative yetiyi, plural yetiler)
Declension
[edit]Inflection | ||
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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 |
- English terms borrowed from Tibetan
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- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ɛti
- Rhymes:English/ɛti/2 syllables
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- en:Cryptozoology
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- cs:Cryptozoology
- Czech masculine animate nouns
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- nl:Cryptozoology
- Indonesian terms derived from Tibetan
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- Rhymes:Indonesian/ti
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- Indonesian lemmas
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- id:Cryptozoology
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- it:Cryptozoology
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɛti
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛti/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
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- pl:Cryptozoology
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- sk:Cryptozoology
- Spanish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/eti
- Rhymes:Spanish/eti/2 syllables
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- es:Folklore
- es:Mythological creatures
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- sv:Cryptozoology
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- tr:Cryptozoology
- tr:Philosophy
- tr:Psychology