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English[edit]

WOTD – 31 December 2006    
Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia

Etymology[edit]

1995.[1] Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

wiki (plural wikis)

  1. A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely using a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.

Translations[edit]

collaborative website

Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

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

  1. (transitive) To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
    To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
    • 2008 December 1, GeekDad, “Son of a Geek: Comics and Growing Up the DC Way”, Wired News:
      I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe
    • 2009 June 18, Lizz Holmans, “Janus”, uk.rec.sheds, Usenet:
      Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe'
    • 2010, Noemi Gonzalez, Journey, page 65:
      I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied” it.
  2. (intransitive) To conduct research on a wiki.
  3. (intransitive) To contribute to a wiki.
    • 2006, Deptford Tv, Deptford.TV Diaries, page 73:
      Blogging, wiki-ing, coding are all activities that generate authorial product.
    • 2007, Dan Woods, Wikis for dummies, page 17:
      The best way to start wiki-ing is to find an existing wiki (that is, a hosted wiki) and start adding to it.
    • 2008, Robert E. Cummings; Matt Barton, Wiki writing: collaborative learning in the college classroom, page 46:
      For example, blog and wiki software can be used to support all sorts of activities that are not commonly associated with the activities of “blogging” or “wikiing.” This includes activities like sharing syllabi, publishing announcements
  4. (transitive) To participate in the wiki-based production of.
    • 2009 October 19, “Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?”[1], Time: 
      The history of wikied novels isn't pretty (Penguin Books never published the gobbledygook that was "A Million Penguins"), and no one has dared wiki a jazz song.

Translations[edit]

research on a wiki
contribute to a wiki

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • “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.
  • Notes:
  1. ^ Cunningham, Ward (2005), "Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki", Ward Cunningham. URL accessed on 28 February 2010.

Anagrams[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English wiki.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

wiki m (plural wiki's, diminutive wikietje)

  1. wiki

Derived terms[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

French[edit]

Noun[edit]

wiki m (plural wikis)

  1. wiki

Derived terms[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Hawaiian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Polynesian *witi (note: only attested in Central-Eastern Polynesian).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: [ˈviki]

Verb[edit]

wiki

  1. (stative) to hasten
  2. (stative) quick, fast

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • “wiki” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986
  1. ^ POLLEX entry

Limburgish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English wiki.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: /ˈwi˦kə˧/, /ˈwi˦ki˨/

Noun[edit]

wiki

  1. wiki

Lower Sorbian[edit]

1. wiki

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Low German wīk, from Latin vicus.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: [ˈvʲikʲi]

Noun[edit]

wiki pl (plural only)

  1. (literary, commerce) market
    Stwórtk su pśecej wiki.
    The market is always [open] on Thursdays.
    • 1998, Erwin Hannusch, chapter 1, Niedersorbisch praktisch und verständlich, Bautzen: Domowina Verlag, ISBN 3-7420-1667-9, page 20:
      Tšochu dalej su Stare wiki.
      Somewhat further on is the Old Market.
  2. town square

Declension[edit]

declension of wiki
plural (plurale tantum)
Nominative wiki
Genitive wikow
Dative wikam
Accusative wiki
Instrumental wikami
Locative wikach

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • Starosta, Manfred: Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik, Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšyn, 1999., ISBN 3-7420-1096-4
  • Šwjela, Bogumil: Dolnoserbsko-němski słownik, Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšyn, 1963., p. 451.

References[edit]

  • Notes:
  1. ^ Bartels, Hauke (2009). "Lower Sorbian vocabulary". In Haspelmath, Martin; Tadmor, Uri. World Loanword Database. Munich: Max Planck Digital Library. Retrieved 2011-04-13.

Norwegian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English wiki, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”).

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

wiki m

  1. wiki

Inflection[edit]

    Inflection of wiki
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Bokmål m wiki wikien wikier wikiene
Nynorsk m wiki wikien wikiar wikiane

Derived terms[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: /ˈwi.ki/, /ˈɡwi.ki/

Etymology[edit]

From English wiki.

Noun[edit]

wiki m and f (plural wikis)

  1. wiki

Swahili[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English week.

Noun[edit]

wiki

  1. a week

Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: /viːkɪ/, /vɪkɪ/, /wiːkɪ/, /wɪkɪ/

Noun[edit]

wiki c

  1. wiki.

Declension[edit]

Declension of wiki
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative wiki wikin wikier wikierna
genitive wikis wikins wikiers wikiernas

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

Tocharian A[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From a hypothetical Proto-Tocharian *w'īkän, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥t or *h₁wih₁ḱm̥ti, *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (cognate with Latin vīgintī, Ancient Greek εἴκοσι (eikosi), Doric ϝείκατι (weikati), Sanskrit विंशति (viṃśati), Avestan vīsaiti, Ossetian insäi, Armenian քսան (k'san), Albanian (një)zet, Sanskrit विंशति (viṃśati), Welsh ugain). Compare Tocharian B ikäṃ.

Numeral[edit]

wiki

  1. (cardinal) twenty
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