fiets
Meaning
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- (feminine) bicycle
- (feminine) motorbike
Synonyms
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/fits/
Etymology
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”).
New
fietsen
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to ride or cycle a bicycle, to bike
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