ye-tiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “rock bear”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “rocky or rocky place”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈjɛ.ti/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈjɛ.ti/, [ˈjɛ.ɾi]
• 韻: -ɛti

名詞

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, 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.

派生語

派生した語

• → Portuguese: iéti

アナグラム

• -iety, yite