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Other Tibetan names for yeti

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments1 person in discussion

Leaving a note here as I lack the linguistic skills to add them appropriately, but on page 156 and 157 of Rene von Nebesky-Wojkowitz's "Where the Gods are Mountains" (which contains an entire chapter called "Sherpas and Snowmen"), he mentions the following other Tibetan names for the yeti: mi chempo ("big man"), mi bompo ("strong man"), and gang mi ("glacier man"), which are noted to be less common than "mi go".

16:40, 23 August 2026 (UTC) Exhailx (talk) 16:40, 23 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Oh, I almost forgot. The preceding chapter, "The brothers of the bamboo" on the Lepcha people (page 136) gives a Lepcha for the yeti: "Chu Mung" meaning "glacier spirit". Nebesky-Wojkowitz states that this is the same thing as the yeti but I suppose that claim could be debated.

16:43, 23 August 2026 (UTC) Exhailx (talk) 16:43, 23 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Other Tibetan names for yeti