fiets

Borrowed from Dutch fiets, of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /fits/

fiets (plural fietse)

1. bicycle, bike

• IPA^(key): /fits/, [fits]

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• Hyphenation: fiets
• Rhymes: -its

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]

fiets f (plural fietsen, diminutive fietsje n)

1. bicycle
2. (motorsports) motorbike

• (bicycle): rijwiel, wieler
• (motorbike): motorfiets, motor, motorrijwiel

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

fiets

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

• fiets on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl