This weekend in the Belgian national newspaper De Standaard, a brief article on the origins of the Dutch word "fiets".
Apparently it comes from the 1886 German neologism "Vize-Pferd", meaning "vice-horse" or horse substitute.
"Vize-Pferd" became "Vice" which became "fiets".
(Translation in the alt-text.)
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