köken: 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”).
köken: Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 自轉車 (jitensha) (modern spelling 自転車), coined in Japan in 1870 in reference to a patented tricycle design. Later used to refer to bicycles.
köken: Both senses trace their origin to Late Latin cyclus. In the sense of a bicycle, the path goes through English and Danish. In the sense of a period, the path is more direct.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-der. Latin velox Proto-Indo-European *ped- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *pṓds Proto-Italic *pets Latin pēs French vélocipèdebor. Russian велосипе́д (velosipéd)bor. Ukrainian велосипед Derived from French vélocipède via Russian велосипе́д (velosipéd).
köken: From จักร (jàk, “wheel”) + ยาน (yaan, “vehicle”), literally "wheeled vehicle"; believed to be a clipping of ทวิจักรยาน (tá-wí-jàk-grà-yaan), from ทวิ (tá-wí, “two”) + จักร (jàk, “wheel”) + ยาน (yaan, “vehicle”), literally "two-wheeled vehicle", possibly a calque of English bicycle; possibly first used around 1895.