Where does “wiki” come from?

wiki (Tocharian A) comes from Proto-Tocharian w'īkän, from Proto-Indo-European dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti — two tens; two decades; twenty; two-ten.

wiki (Tocharian A): twenty

Definitions

  1. twenty

Ancestry of “wiki”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Tocharianw'īkän—
2Proto-Indo-Europeandwi(h₁)dḱm̥titwo tens; two decades; twenty; two-ten
Every word from Proto-Indo-European dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti →Every word from Proto-Tocharian w'īkän →