Where does “fixipyörä” come from?

fixipyörä (Finnish) comes from English -fix, from Latin fīgere, from Proto-Indo-European dʰēygʷ- — to stick into, pierce.

fixipyörä (Finnish): fixed-gear bicycle bicycle that does not have a freewheel, and only has a single gear ratio

Definitions

  1. fixed-gear bicycle bicycle that does not have a freewheel, and only has a single gear ratio

Ancestry of “fixipyörä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-fixForming nouns denoting a morpheme used in word...
2Latinfīgere—
3Proto-Indo-Europeandʰēygʷ-to stick into, pierce
Every word from Proto-Indo-European dʰēygʷ- →Every word from Latin fīgere →Every word from English -fix →