yeti

See also: Yeti, yéti, and yètǐ

English

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/, [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

Anagrams

Anguthimri

Noun

yeti

  1. (Mpakwithi) bird

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

Czech

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈjɛtɪ]
  • Hyphenation: ye‧ti

Noun

yeti m anim

  1. (cryptozoology) yeti

Declension
Declension of yeti
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

Synonyms

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

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): [ˈjɛti]
  • 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

Noun

yeti m (invariable)

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

Polish

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(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛti
  • Syllabification: ye‧ti

Noun

yeti m anim (indeclinable)

  1. (cryptozoology) yeti
    Synonym: człowiek śniegu

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Noun

yeti m (plural yetis)

  1. (cryptozoology) yeti (unidentified humanoid of the Himalayas)
    Synonym: abominável homem das neves

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

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 (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 Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Pronunciation
 
  • 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

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
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