Etymology

bicyclist

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English bicycle ← French bicycle ← Late Latin cyclus
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dwís
  4. Proto-Italic*dwis
  5. Old Latinduis
  6. Latinbis
  7. Frenchbi-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-redup.
  9. Proto-Indo-European*kʷékʷlos
  10. Proto-Hellenic*kʷókʷlos
  11. Proto-Hellenic*kúklos
  12. Ancient Greekκύκλος (kúklos)
  13. Late Latincyclus
  14. Frenchcycle
  15. Frenchbicycle
  16. Englishbicycle
  17. English todaybicyclist

From bicycle + -ist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.