Where does “wiki” come from?
wiki (Icelandic) comes from English wiki, from English WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki, from Hawaiian wiki, from Proto-Polynesian witi.
Ancestry of “wiki”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | wiki | A collaborative website which can be directly... |
| 2 | English | WikiWikiWeb | — |
| 3 | Hawaiian | wikiwiki | speedy |
| 4 | Hawaiian | wiki | hasten, speed up; be swift, speedy, quick |
| 5 | Proto-Polynesian | witi | — |
Words derived from “wiki”