Is the Yeti and the Abominable Snowman the same thing?

Question

Is the Yeti and the Abominable Snowman the same thing?

Answer 1

NO

Answer 2

yes

Answer 3

Yes they are the same creature.

The name Yeti is derived from the Tibetan je-tiet (Tibetan: གཡའ་དྲེད་; Wylie: g.ya' dred), a compound of the words yeh (Tibetan: གཡའ་; Wylie: g.ya'), meaning "rocky" or "rocky place", and pe-tah (Tibetan: དྲེད་; Wylie: dred), which translates as "bear", the full name being "rock bear".

Pranavananda states that the words "ti", "te" and "teh" are derived from the spoken word 'tre' (spelled "dred"), Tibetan for bear, with the 'r' so softly pronounced as to be almost inaudible, thus making it "te" or "teh".

Other terms used by Himalayan peoples do not translate exactly the same, but refer to legendary and indigenous wildlife:

    * Kang Admi, Mir ka, Migoi, Dzu-teh, Meh-teh (Tibetan)

    * Dzu-teh - 'dzu' translates as "cattle" and the full meaning translates as "cattle bear" and is the Himalayan Red Bear.

    * Migoi or Mi-go (Tibetan)

    * Mirka - another name for "wild-man", however as local legend has it "anyone who sees one dies or is killed". The latter is taken from a written statement by Frank Smythe

Himalayan wildlife attributed to the Yeti sightings include the Chu-Teh, a Langur monkey living at lower altitudes, the Tibetan Blue Bear, the Himalayan Brown Bear and the Dzu-Teh (commonly known as the Himalayan Red Bear).

The term is often used to refer to creatures fitting any of the aforementioned descriptions. For example, the fear liath has been dubbed as the "Scottish Yeti".

The appellation "Abominable Snowman" was not coined until 1921, the same year Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Howard-Bury led the Royal Geographical Society's "Everest Reconnaissance Expedition" which he chronicled in Mount Everest The Reconnaissance

Answer 4

Same thing different names, Yeti is the name given to it by the regional folk of Nepal and Tibet.

Answer 5

yup :]

Answer 6

Yes, wait no, wait Yah.

Answer 7

a yeti an a abominable is the same thing because a yeti lives in the snowy mountains in Asia and so does abominable.

Answer 8

Yes, they are the same thing with different names.