wiki

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.5 Derived terms 1.6 References 1.7 Anagrams 2 Swahili 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 3 Swedish 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Inflection

[edit] English

Wikipedia

[edit] Etymology

Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb (first wiki software), from Hawaiian wikiwiki (quick) + English web.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈwɪ.ki/ or /ˈwi.ki/
• enPR: (wĭʹkē) or (wēʹkē)
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -ɪki or -iːki

[edit] Noun

wiki (plural wikis)

1. A collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it.

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to wiki (third-person singular simple present wikis, present participle wikiing, simple past and past participle wikied)

1. (transitive) To research a topic on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.

   To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.

2. (intransitive) To contribute to a wiki.

[edit] Derived terms

• transwiki
• wikify
• wikiholic
• wikilink
• Wikipedia
• Wikisource
• Wiktionary
• Wiktionarian

[edit] References

• “wiki” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• "wiki" in the Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.6), Lexico Publishing Group, 2003-2005.

[edit] Anagrams

• kiwi

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[edit] Swahili

[edit] Etymology

From English week

[edit] Noun

wiki

1. derivation of English week.

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Noun

wiki IPA: viːkɪ, vɪkɪ, wiːkɪ, wɪkɪ

1. wiki.

[edit] Inflection

Inflection for wiki	Singular		Plural
Common	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	wiki	wikin	wikier	wikierna
Genitive	wikis	wikins	wikiers	wikiernas

¹: The plurals are not agreed upon, other words for the indefinite plural nominative presently in use include wikier, wikis, wikisar, wikior, wikiar, wiki etc.