According to the native accounts from the nomadic Yakut and Tungus tribes, it is a well built, Neanderthal-like man wearing pelts and bearing a white patch of fur on its forearms.
It has been described as six to seven feet tall and covered with dark hair. In Russian folklore, the Chuchuna is an entity said to dwell in Siberia. The latter is taken from a written statement by Frank Smythe's sherpas in 1937. Local legend holds that "anyone who sees one dies or is killed". Bun Manchi – Nepali for "jungle man" that is used outside Sherpa communities where yeti is the common name.Migoi or Mi-go ( Tibetan: མི་རྒོད་, Wylie: mi rgod, ZYPY: Migö/Mirgö) translates as "wild man".Dzu-teh – 'dzu' translates as " cattle" and the full meaning translates as "cattle bear", referring to the Himalayan brown bear.Michê ( Tibetan: མི་དྲེད་, Wylie: mi dred, ZYPY: Michê) translates as "man- bear".Other terms used by Himalayan peoples do not translate exactly the same, but refer to legendary and indigenous wildlife: 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". The word Yeti is derived from Tibetan: གཡའ་དྲེད་, Wylie: g.ya' dred, ZYPY: Yachê, a compound of the words Tibetan: གཡའ་, Wylie: g.ya', ZYPY: ya "rocky", "rocky place" and ( Tibetan: དྲེད་, Wylie: dred, ZYPY: chê) "bear". Without proper rendering support, you may see very small fonts, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters. The Yeti is often described as being a large, bipedal ape-like creature that is covered with brown, gray, or white hair, and it is sometimes depicted as having large, sharp teeth.