fiets
Afrikaans
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch fiets, of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
Noun
fiets (plural fietse)
Derived terms
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Unknown. Various hypotheses exist: from the dialectal verb vietse or fietsen (“to move quickly”), from French vite (“quickly”). Less likely is a corruption of French vélocipède, fieselepee.[1]
Noun
fiets f (plural fietsen, diminutive fietsje n)
- bicycle
- Ik biets iets op de fiets, of zoiets, maar krijg niets.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (motor racing) motorbike
Synonyms
- (bicycle): rijwiel, wieler
- (motorbike): motorfiets, motor, motorrijwiel
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Afrikaans: fiets
- → Dutch Low Saxon: fietse
- → German: Fietse
- → Indonesian: pit
- → Javanese: pit
- → West Frisian: fyts
Etymology 2
Verb
fiets
- (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of fietsen
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of fietsen
References
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “fiets1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Further reading
- fiets on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
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