See abominable snowman.
[Alteration of Tibetan miti : mi, person + ti, a kind of animal.]
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[Alteration of Tibetan miti : mi, person + ti, a kind of animal.]
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In 1953 England's Sir Edmund Hillary made history by leading an expedition that took him, along with Tenzing Norgay of Nepal, to the top of Mount Everest. On the way up he noticed giant footprints in the snow that were said to belong to an apelike creature called a yeti. Curious about this elusive animal, Hillary returned to Tibet in 1960 and tried to make natural history by leading an expedition in search of the yeti. The second expedition failed as completely as the first had succeeded. Not only did he not see an actual yeti, alive or dead, but even the relics shown him proved to be something else. A shaggy fur hide came from a Tibetan blue bear; a supposed scalp of a yeti came from a serow. And it was noticed that footprints in the snow, over time, tend to grow much larger than the original foot that made them, thus accounting for the "yeti tracks" he had seen. Hillary returned an unbeliever.
Other observers are said to have been more fortunate. In 1938 a certain Captain d'Auvergue, curator of the Victoria Memorial in Calcutta, said that during a trek alone in the Himalayas he was rescued from death by a kind yeti nine feet tall. And in 1974 a Sherpa girl told police that an apelike creature broke the necks of two of her yaks and tried to drag her off before she started screaming.
Whatever the truth, you can definitely find a yeti in the Tibetan language. In Tibetan, yah means rock and ti means animal, so a yeti can be called an animal of the rocks. Alternatively, the first syllable of yeti may be a version of mi, the word for person. Another name for the creature is metoh-kangmi, which has been roughly translated as "abominable snowman."
A little more than a million people speak the Tibetan language, which belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, along with Chinese. For most of its history, Tibet remained a hidden realm, high above and far beyond the reach even of the expanding English language, and disinclined to spread its language to the rest of the world. Since 1951, Tibet has been a remote province of China. Despite this isolation, a few words of Tibetan have immigrated into English, mostly designating distinctive animals of the Himalayas. These include goa (1846), a gazelle or antelope; kiang (1869), a red and white wild ass; Lhasa apso (1935), a breed of dog; and of course the yak (1795), beloved of animal alphabet books for beginning with the letter Y. There is also the lama (1654), the Tibetan Buddhist monk.
Also known as the "abominable snowman," the yeti is the mysterious humanoid creature reported by Western sources as early as 1832 as living in the Himalayan Mountains. It became well known following several expeditions to the area in the 1950s. In 1960 Sir Edmund Hillary, who conquered Everest, called further attention to the yeti in his attempts to debunk them. The Soviet Ministry of Culture established a group of "cryptozoologists" to locate the yeti, according to a report of January 9, 1988, by Tass, the Soviet press agency. The agency stated that nearly one hundred sightings had been collated by Zhanna Kofman of Moscow.
Sources:
Clark, Jerome. Encyclopedia of Strange and Unexplained Phenomena. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993.
Sanderson, Ivan. Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life. Philadelphia, Pa: Chilton Books, 1961.
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| Doctor Who race | |
|---|---|
| Yeti | |
| Type | Robots |
| Affiliated with | The Great Intelligence |
| Home planet | Earth |
| First appearance | The Abominable Snowmen |
The Yeti of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, although resembling the cryptozoological creatures also called the Yeti, are in actuality alien robots. Their external appearance, that of a huge hairy biped, disguises a small spherical mechanism that provides its motive power. The Yeti serve the Great Intelligence, a disembodied entity from another planet, which tried to form a physical body in order to conquer the Earth. The Yeti are initially a ruse to scare off curiosity seekers, and later form an army serving the Great Intelligence.
The Great Intelligence and its Yeti minions were thwarted twice by the Doctor's second incarnation, played by Patrick Troughton, in the serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear. A Yeti was also one of the creatures in the Death Zone featured in The Five Doctors.
The sound effect of a Yeti's roar is created by slowing down the sound of a flushing toilet.[1]
Yeti also feature in the spin-off video Downtime, which was also novelised as part of Virgin's Missing Adventures range. The Yeti also appear in the Missing Adventure Millennial Rites by Craig Hinton. Rites follows the New Adventure All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane in identifying the Great Intelligence with H. P. Lovecraft's Yog-Sothoth, a being from the universe before this one. The Great Intelligence also appeared in a Doctor Who back-up comic strip in Doctor Who Weekly #31–#34. The canonicity of these spin-offs is unclear.
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| Translations: Yeti |
Nederlands (Dutch)
yeti (legendarisch monster in de Himalaya)
Deutsch (German)
n. - Yeti, Schneemensch
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γιέτι, χιονάνθρωπος των Ιμαλαϊων
Português (Portuguese)
n. - abominável homem das neves
Русский (Russian)
снежный человек
Español (Spanish)
n. - abominable hombre de las nieves
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - snömannen i Himalaya
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
雪人
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 雪人
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) اسم يطلق على حيوان غير معروف يقال انه يقطن اعالي جبال الهملايا
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - יטי - איש השלג הנתעב (יצור אגדי מטיבט)
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