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fiets.

bicycle

5 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/fits/[fits]

  1. bicycle

    feminine
    Gisteren heb ik een nieuwe fiets gekocht.

  2. motorbike

    feminine
Where this word comes from

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”).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.