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: 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: Borrowed from English cycle, from bicycle, from bi- (“two”) + Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, wheel”). Cognate with Bengali সাইকেল (śaikel)
inflection of birotus: · nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
çekim: çoğul birotae · tamlayan birotae
köken: From birotus.
Etimoloji
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.