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fiets

Mane (Îngilîzî)

fietsen

Têgeh

duçerxe

vêlosîpêd

Pircarînî

B2
Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
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Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

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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