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English

Etymology

First appearance in 1995 in PC Week.^[1] Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.

Pronunciation

Noun

wiki (plural wikis)

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

   He spent time editing articles on the wiki.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) 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”, in 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”, in uk.rec.sheds‎^[4] (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 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 with Peter Thoeny, 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 with 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

3. (transitive) To participate in the wiki-based production of.
   • 2009 October 19, “Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?”, in Time‎^[5], archived from the original on 4 June 2011:

     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.

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Catalan

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wiki.

Pronunciation

Noun

wiki m (plural wikis)

1. wiki

Chinese

Etymology

From English wiki.

Pronunciation

Verb

wiki

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to wiki; to research on Wikipedia

Proper noun

wiki

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Wikipedia

Alternative forms

Noun

wiki

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) article on Wikipedia

Choctaw

Alternative forms

Adjective

wīki

1. heavy

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.^[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

wiki c (singular definite wikien, plural indefinite wikier)

1. A wiki.^[1]

Inflection

Derived terms

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

Noun

wiki m (plural wiki's, diminutive wikietje n)

1. wiki

Derived terms

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Finnish

Etymology

From English wiki, formed from Hawaiian wikiwiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiki/, [ˈwik̟i]
• Rhymes: -iki
• Syllabification^(key): wi‧ki
• Hyphenation^(key): wi‧ki

Noun

wiki

1. wiki (collaborative website)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

Noun

wiki m (plural wikis)

1. wiki

Derived terms

Anagrams

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *witi. Note that this reconstruction is only attested in Central-Eastern Polynesian.^[1][2]

Pronunciation

Verb

wiki

1. (stative) to hasten, to speed up
2. (stative) to be swift, to be speedy, to be quick

Derived terms

References

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

Noun

wiki (plural wiki-wiki)

1. wiki

Further reading

Japanese

Romanization

wiki

1. Rōmaji transcription of ウィキ

Kokota

Etymology

Borrowed from English week.

Noun

wiki

1. week

   palu wiki : two weeks

References

• Bill Palmer, Kokota Grammar, page 380 →ISBN

Latvian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wiki

Pronunciation

Noun

wiki m (invariable)

1. wiki

Limburgish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwi˦kə˧/, /ˈwi˦ki˨/

Noun

wiki m

1. wiki

Inflection

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvʲi.kʲi/
• Rhymes: -ikʲi
• Syllabification: wi‧ki

Noun

wiki pl

1. (literary, commerce) market

   Stwórtk su pśecej wiki.

   The market is always [open] on Thursdays.

   • 1998, Erwin Hannusch, chapter 1, in Niedersorbisch praktisch und verständlich, Bautzen: Domowina Verlag, →ISBN, page 20:

     Tšochu dalej su Stare wiki.

     Somewhat further on is the Old Market.

2. town square

Declension

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References

Further reading

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

Māori

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Verb

wiki

1. to form circular ripples on the surface of a fluid

Etymology 2

Transliteration of English week.

Noun

wiki

1. week

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Transliteration of English wick.

Noun

wiki

1. wick; fuse

Further reading

• “wiki” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Noun

wiki m (definite singular wikien, indefinite plural wikier, definite plural wikiene)

1. wiki

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Noun

wiki m (definite singular wikien, indefinite plural wikiar, definite plural wikiane)

1. wiki

Derived terms

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wiki.

Pronunciation

Noun

wiki f or (less common) m (plural wikis)

1. wiki (website allowing collaborative editing of content)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiki/ [ˈwi.ki], /ˈɡwiki/ [ˈɡwi.ki]
• Rhymes: -iki
• Syllabification: wi‧ki

Noun

wiki m or f same meaning (plural wikis)

1. wiki

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English week.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wiki/, [wici], [wit͡ʃi]

Noun

wiki

1. week

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English week.^[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

wiki class IX (plural wiki class X)

1. a week

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viːkɪ/, /vɪkɪ/, /wiːkɪ/, /wɪkɪ/

Noun

wiki c

1. wiki.

Declension

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

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *w'īkän, from Proto-Indo-European *(d)wi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (cognate with Latin vīgintī, Ancient Greek εἴκοσι (eíkosi), Doric ϝείκατι (weíkati), Sanskrit विंशति (viṃśati), Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (vīsaⁱti), Ossetian инсӕй (insæj), Armenian քսան (kʻsan), Albanian (një)zet, Welsh ugain). Compare Tocharian B ikäṃ.

Numeral

wiki

1. twenty

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvici/, /ˈɥici/
• Hyphenation: wi‧ki

Noun

wiki (definite accusative wikiyi, plural wikiler)

1. wiki

Declension

Unami

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Algonquian *wi·kiwa (“to dwell”).

Verb

wiki (VAI (animate-subject intransitive))

1. To dwell, to have a house, to reside.
   • Nora Thompson Dean, “Na Òkwës Òk Na Chëmamës Achimëwakàn [The Fox and The Rabbit Story]”, in Lenape Talking Dictionary‎^[7]:

     Kwëtën òkwës wiku kixki sipunk.

     Once upon a time, a fox was living near a creek.

Conjugation

References

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “wiku”, in Grant Leneaux, Raymond Whritenour, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project