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Hawaiian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Reduplication of wiki, from Proto-Eastern Polynesian *witi (compare with Tahitian viti (fast, rapid, alert) and (“early, quick, alert”)).[1][2]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

wikiwiki

  1. speedy

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “wikiwiki”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 385
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “witi”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online[1]