fiets

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch fiets, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fits/

Noun

fiets (plural fietse)

  1. bicycle, bike

Dutch

Een typische fiets
A typical bike

Etymology

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]

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fiets f (plural fietsen, diminutive fietsje n)

  1. bicycle
  2. (motorsports) motorbike

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Afrikaans: fiets
  • → Dutch Low Saxon: fietse
  • → Indonesian: pit
  • → Javanese: pit
  • → West Frisian: fyts

Verb

fiets

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fietsen
  2. imperative of fietsen

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Further reading

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