Etymology

biker

bik·er
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Today it means: A person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles, sometimes a member of a motorcycle club. Full definition →

English bike ← 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. Englishbicycleclip.
  17. Englishbike
  18. English todaybiker

From bike + -er.

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