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: short for チャリンコ (charinko) Occasionally explained as a shortening of チャリオット (chariotto) from English chariot, from the sense of two-wheeled vehicle. However, this appears to be a folk etymology. Ultimate derivation unknown. See チャリンコ for details.
aile: チャリ通, ママチャリ: a, with baskets in front and back, or possibly a child seat in back, ババチャリ: an, a bicycle ridden by an elderly woman, カマチャリ: a, 原チャリ
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: Borrowed from English cycle, from bicycle, from bi- (“two”) + Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, wheel”). Cognate with Bengali সাইকেল (śaikel)