fiets

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Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch fiets, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

fiets (plural fietse)

  1. bicycle, bike

Derived terms


Dutch

Een typische fiets
A typical bike

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fits/, [fits]
  • audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: fiets
  • Rhymes: -its

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)

  1. bicycle
    Ik biets iets op de fiets, of zoiets, maar krijg niets.
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  2. (motor racing) motorbike
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: fiets
  • Dutch Low Saxon: fietse
  • German: Fietse
  • Indonesian: pit
  • Javanese: pit
  • West Frisian: fyts

Etymology 2

Verb

fiets

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of fietsen
  2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of fietsen

References

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “fiets1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

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