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fiets

Signification (Anglais)

fietsen

Fréquence

B2
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/fits/
Étymologie (Anglais)

Unknown. Various hypotheses exist: * A corruption of French vélocipède, via an intermediate fieselepee or fietsepee. * Named after bike seller E.C. Viets from Wageningen. * From the dialectal verb vietsen (“to move quickly”). * From German Vize as short for Vizepferd (literally “surrogate horse”).

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