fiets

Borrowed from Dutch fiets, of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /fits/

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fiets (plural fietse)

1. bicycle, bike

• motorfiets

• IPA^(key): /fits/, [fits]

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• Hyphenation: fiets
• Rhymes: -its

Unknown. Various hypotheses exist:

• A corruption of French vélocipède, via an intermediate fieselepee or fietsepee.[1][2][3]
• Named after bike seller E.C. Viets from Wageningen.[4][5]
• From the dialectal verb vietsen (“to move quickly”).[1]
• From German Vize as short for Vizepferd (literally “surrogate horse”).[6][7]

fiets f (plural fietsen, diminutive fietsje n)

1. bicycle

   Gisteren heb ik een nieuwe fiets gekocht.

   Yesterday I bought a new bicycle.

2. (motor racing) motorbike

• (bicycle): rijwiel, wieler
• (motorbike): motorfiets, motor, motorrijwiel

• Afrikaans: fiets
• → Caribbean Javanese: pit
• → Dutch Low Saxon: fietse
• → German: Fietse
• → Javanese: ꦥꦶꦠ꧀ (pit)
  • → Indonesian: pit (“bicycle”)
• → West Frisian: fyts

fiets

1. inflection of fietsen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• fiets on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl