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Where does “wiki-” come from?
wiki- (Irish) comes from Unami -w.
Ancestry of “wiki-”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Unami
-w
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Words derived from “wiki-”
death
week
weeks
weekly
ere
weekend
Greenwich
Norwich
Sedgwick
ulnar
wick
Haw
hawthorn
deathless
weekday
haw
Fenwick
Hawes
Keswick
Aldridge
workweek
biweekly
deathlike
weeklong
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