Word Origin Summary

Bicyclette is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• biċikletta

  Maltese · borrowed from

• bisikilety

  Bara Malagasy · borrowed from

• biçikletë

  SQI · borrowed from

• bicicleta

  Galician · borrowed from

• bizikleta

  Basque · borrowed from

• súkkla

  Faroese · derived from

• بسكليتة

  Hijazi Arabic · borrowed from

• bisikleta

  Tagalog · derived from

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