cycling round the world
Recently in Poland I noticed that the Polish word for bicycle is "Rower." This of course must be derived from the world's first bicycle brand, the British Rover safety bicycle of the 1880s.The Dutch...
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There's a good link here:www.bikecult.com/bikecultbook/glossary_naming.html
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Wasn't the early model with the odd sized wheels known as a "penny-farthing," or something?
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Yes, though no idea why. I rode one at a fair in Germany, and they're terrifying.
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Wasn't a penny farthing called that because it had a big wheel and a small wheel - the big wheel was the old penny (in British currency) and a small wheel was the farthing - a much smaller coin?
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>> Wasn't the early model with the odd sized wheels known as a "penny-farthing," or something? Illustration and discussion here; also:
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That belinked list is great, but they do Japanese a disservice by leaving out "charinko" and its slang equivalent "charii".One of the most misleading words in the language, btw! Every visiting...
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I haven't found one online, but I have a book of late 19th C photographs that shows a bicycle built opposite from the penny-farthing, with the seat and handlebars on the other side of the large wheel...
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>Every visiting Westerner - and a good deal of Japanese - assume it comes from "Charlie". It does not....waiting for the other bike clip to drop. Wherefrom then? Chariot?
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It already dropped - "charinko", a native (pseudo-Chinese) word.I forget what "cha" and "ko" are; "rin" = wheel/axle (nothing to do with "rim", btw).
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Quote:The Dutch word for bicycle is "fiets"Correct, but nothing is certain about the origin. The development 'velocipede' > 'vielesepee' > 'fiets' is the most common explanation, but is also...
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Hey, Dutchtoo, does Indonesian "sepeda" come from Dutch? I always figgered it must, what with "ped" in the middle and all.A "pedalable", literally, perhaps?
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Jack Frost and his wife get around on an icycle built for two.
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WG, "sepeda" is defintely not Dutch. Sounds more like Spanish or Portugese to me. However a handlebar is called a 'sepeda stang' and the 'stang' part is Dutch. The word means simply 'bar'.
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