yeti

See also: Yeti, yéti, and yètǐ

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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/
• 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

Translations

unidentified animal

• Arabic: يَتِي m (yatī)
• 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, migou (fr) m
• Georgian: იეტი (ieṭi), თოვლის კაცი (tovlis ḳaci)
• German: Yeti (de) m, Schneemensch (de) m
• Hebrew: יטי
• Hungarian: jeti (hu)
• Italian: yeti (it) m
• Japanese: イエティー (ietī), 野人 (やじん, yajin)
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• Korean: 예티 (yeti)
• Mongolian: алмас (mn) (almas), цасны хүн (casny xün)
• Nepali: हिममानव (himmānav)
• Persian: یتی
• Polish: yeti (pl) m
• Portuguese: ieti m, iéti (pt) m, yeti (pt) m, abominável homem das neves m
• Russian: йе́ти (ru) m (jjéti) (indeclinable), сне́жный челове́к (ru) m (snéžnyj čelovék), бигфу́т (ru) m (bigfút)
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• Slovak: yeti m
• Swedish: yeti c, jeti c, snöman (sv)
• Thai: เยติ (th) (yaydtì)
• Tibetan: མི་རྒོད (mi rgod)

Anagrams

• -iety, yite

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Czech

Noun

1. yeti (unidentified animal)

Synonyms

• sněžný muž

Further reading

• Template:R:KNLA

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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

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Italian

Noun

yeti m (uncountable)

1. yeti

Synonyms

• abominevole uomo delle nevi

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Polish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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//

Noun

1. yeti

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• iéti, ieti, yéti

Noun

yeti m (plural yetis)

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

Synonyms

• abominável homem das neves

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Slovak

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈje.ti/

Noun

yeti m (genitive singular yetiho, nominative plural yetiovia, genitive plural yetiov, declension pattern of kuli)

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

Declension

Declension of yeti

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

Synonyms

• snežný človek m
• snežný muž m

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

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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]

Noun

yeti m (plural yetis)

1. yeti

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Swedish

Noun

yeti c

1. (cryptozoology) yeti

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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