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Where does “WikiWikiWeb” come from?
WikiWikiWeb (English) comes from Hawaiian wikiwiki, from Hawaiian wiki, from Proto-Polynesian witi.
Ancestry of “WikiWikiWeb”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Hawaiian
wikiwiki
speedy
2
Hawaiian
wiki
hasten, speed up; be swift, speedy, quick
3
Proto-Polynesian
witi
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Words derived from “WikiWikiWeb”
Wikipedia
wiki
MediaWiki
Wiktionary
Wikipedian
interwiki
wiki
wiki
wiki
wiki
wiki
wiki
wikiholic
wikify
wikiproject
維基
վիքի
wikilink
vikio
wikinomics
wikification
wiki
wikilike
wici
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