Other forms: yetis
A yeti is a large hairy creature said to live in the Himalayas. Tracks of a yeti.
Every footprint examined has turned out to be a bear or a melted print of something smaller. The name comes from Tibetan and means roughly rock bear.
1nounyetiA large hairy creature said to live in the Himalayas.
“The yeti in that photograph was a bear walking on two legs.”
yeti is a creature.
From Tibetan g-ya dred, a compound meaning something like rocky-place bear; attested in English from 1937.
bo
གཡའ་དྲེད — wildman, yeti
English, today
yeti
Built from
bo གཡའ་དྲེད (“wildman, yeti”), compound of གཡའ (“dirt, rust, slate”) and དྲེད (“bear”). Attested since 1937.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA