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Where does “wiki” come from?

Wiki comes from Hawaiian wiki, from Proto-Polynesian witi, ultimately meaning quick or fast.

wiki (English): A collaborative website which can be directly...

Definitions

  1. A collaborative website which can be directly...

Ancestry of “wiki”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishWikiWikiWeb—
2Hawaiianwikiwikispeedy
3Hawaiianwikihasten, speed up; be swift, speedy, quick
4Proto-Polynesianwiti—

Words derived from “wiki”

  • Wikipedia
  • MediaWiki
  • Wikipedian
  • wikiholic
  • wikiproject
  • wikification
  • wikiness
  • wikilink
  • dewikify
  • wikitext
  • wikilawyering
  • interwiki
  • wikify
  • wikiverse
  • wikilike
  • Wikipedialike
  • wikiphobia
  • wikiphobe
  • wikicode
  • wiki
  • Wikipedia
  • MediaWiki
  • Википе́дия
  • wikifier
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