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English

WOTD – 31 December 2006
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

wiki (plural wikis)

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

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Derived terms of wiki (proper nouns)
Other terms derived from wiki

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, Usenet‎[2]:
      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, 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
  3. (transitive) To participate in the wiki-based production of.
    • 2009 October 19, “Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?”, in Time‎[3]:
      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

References

  1. ^ Cunningham, Ward (2005), “Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki”, in Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc.‎[1], retrieved 28 February 2010

Anagrams

Chinese

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Pronunciation

Noun

wiki

  1. wiki
  2. Wikipedia

Synonyms

Choctaw

Alternative forms

  • Spelling variants

Adjective

wīki

  1. heavy

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia da

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Noun

wiki c (singular definite wikien, plural indefinite wikier)

  1. A wiki.

Inflection

Declension of wiki
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative wiki wikien wikier wikierne
genitive wikis wikiens wikiers wikiernes

Derived terms

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. wiki

Derived terms

Anagrams

Finnish

Etymology

From English wiki, formed from Hawaiian wikiwiki.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

wiki

  1. wiki (collaborative website)

Declension

Inflection of wiki (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative wiki wikit
genitive wikin wikien
partitive wikiä wikejä
illative wikiin wikeihin
singular plural
nominative wiki wikit
accusative nom. wiki wikit
gen. wikin
genitive wikin wikien
partitive wikiä wikejä
inessive wikissä wikeissä
elative wikistä wikeistä
illative wikiin wikeihin
adessive wikillä wikeillä
ablative wikiltä wikeiltä
allative wikille wikeille
essive wikinä wikeinä
translative wikiksi wikeiksi
instructive — wikein
abessive wikittä wikeittä
comitative — wikeineen
Possessive forms of wiki (type risti)
possessor singular plural
1st person wikini wikimme
2nd person wikisi wikinne
3rd person wikinsä

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

Noun

wiki m (plural wikis)

  1. wiki

Derived terms

Anagrams

Hawaiian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Verb

wiki

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

Derived terms

References

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

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

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

1. wiki

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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, page 20:
      Tšochu dalej su Stare wiki.
      Somewhat further on is the Old Market.
  2. town square

Declension

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

Derived terms

References

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

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.

Norwegian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

wiki m

  1. A wiki.

Inflection

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

Portuguese

Noun

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

  1. wiki (website allowing collaborative editing of content)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwi.ki/, /ˈɡwi.ki/

Noun

wiki m or f (plural wikis)

  1. wiki

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English week.

Pronunciation

Noun

wiki

  1. week

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English week.

Noun

wiki (n class, plural wiki)

  1. a week

Synonyms

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

wiki c

  1. wiki.

Declension

Declension of wiki 
Singular Plural
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

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 (kʿsan), Albanian (një)zet, Welsh ugain). Compare Tocharian B ikäṃ.

Numeral

wiki

  1. twenty

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

wiki (definite accusative wikiyi, plural wikiler)

  1. wiki

Declension

Inflection
Nominative wiki
Definite accusative wikiyi
Singular Plural
Nominative wiki wikiler
Definite accusative wikiyi wikileri
Dative wikiye wikilere
Locative wikide wikilerde
Ablative wikiden wikilerden
Genitive wikinin wikilerin
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular wikim wikilerim
2nd singular wikin wikilerin
3rd singular wikisi wikileri
1st plural wikimiz wikilerimiz
2nd plural wikiniz wikileriniz
3rd plural wikileri wikileri
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