menk

See also: Menk

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mansi (compare Northern Mansi менкв (menkv)).

Noun

menk (uncountable)

1. (Russia, cryptozoology, folklore) An animal described by the Mansi as a "forest giant", with anatomical features similar to a yeti, said to live in the area of Khantia-Mansia, Russia.
   • 1996, Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, page 79:

     This figure is called menk in Ob-Ugrian folklore and ritual.

   • 1999, Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective:

     Although doors were jammed shut, the menk burst in with huge birch masks covered with hair made of hay.

   • 2014, “Mysterious Deaths Of College Students Blamed On ‘Russian Yeti’”, in Huffington Post‎^[1]:

     A new documentary, “Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives” airing June 1 on the Discovery Channel explores the remote possibility that a “menk” — the Russian^{[sic – meaning Mansi]} word for Yeti — may have been responsible.

Synonyms

• yeti, Russian yeti

Translations

unidentified yeti-like animal

See also

• abominable snowman
• Bigfoot
• sasquatch
• yowie

Further reading

• menk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Noun

menk

1. Alternative form of menske