yeti

See also: Yeti, yéti, and yètǐ

English

Etymology

Borrowed 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):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjɛ.ti/, [ˈjɛ.ɾi]
• 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^[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

• yeti boot

 

Descendants

• → Portuguese: iéti

Translations

unidentified animal

• Arabic: يَتِي m (yatī)
• Bulgarian: йети m (jeti)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪人 (zh) (xuěrén), 野人 (zh) (yěrén)

• Czech: yeti m, sněžný muž m
• Dutch: yeti (nl) m
• Dzongkha: མི་རྒོད (mi rgod​)
• Esperanto: jetio
• Finnish: lumimies (fi), jeti (fi)
• French: yéti (fr) m
• Georgian: იეტი (ieṭi), თოვლის კაცი (tovlis ḳaci)
• German: Yeti (de) m, Schneemensch (de) m
• Hebrew: יטי
• Hungarian: jeti (hu)
• Indonesian: yeti
• Italian: yeti (it) m
• Japanese: イエティー (ietī), 野人 (ja) (やじん, yajin)
• Korean: 예티 (yeti)
• Macedonian: је́ти n (jéti), сне́жен чо́век m (snéžen čóvek)
• Mongolian: алмас (mn) (almas), цасны хүн (casny xün), мигү (migü)
• Nepali: हिममानव (himmānav)
• Persian: یتی
• Polish: yeti (pl) m
• Portuguese: iéti (pt) m, abominável homem das neves m
• Russian: йе́ти (ru) m (jjéti) (indeclinable), сне́жный челове́к (ru) m (snéžnyj čelovék), бигфу́т (ru) m (bigfút)
• Sherpa: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: yeti m
• Swedish: yeti (sv) c, jeti c, snöman (sv)
• Thai: เยติ (th) (yaydtì)
• Tibetan: མི་རྒོད (mi rgod)
• Vietnamese: người tuyết
• Yakut: чучунаа (cucunaa)

Anagrams

• -iety, yite

Anguthimri

Noun

yeti

1. (Mpakwithi) bird

References

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

Czech

Alternative forms

• yetti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈjɛtɪ]
• 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 (in Czech)

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:

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• Hyphenation: ye‧ti

Noun

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

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

   Synonym: verschrikkelijke sneeuwman

Indonesian

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): /ˈjeti/
• Hyphenation: ye‧ti

Noun

yeti

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

Further reading

• “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

Noun

yeti m (invariable)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

   Synonym: abominevole uomo delle nevi

Polish

yeti

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English yeti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛ.ti/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛti
• Syllabification: ye‧ti

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
• yeti in PWN's encyclopedia

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

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	yeti	yetiul		yeti	yetii
genitive-dative	yeti	yetiului		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

• IPA^(key): [ˈjeti]

Noun

yeti m pers

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, 2003–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝeti/ [ˈɟ͡ʝe.t̪i]

• 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

yeti m (plural yetis)

1. (folklore) yeti

Further reading

• “yeti”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Noun

yeti c

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jeti]
• 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