wiki

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

• enPR: wĭʹkē, wēʹkē, IPA^(key): /ˈwɪki/, /ˈwiːki/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪki, -iːki
• Homophones: wicky, weaky, wickie

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.

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.

• sukuma wiki

• “wiki”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• "wiki" in the Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.6), Lexico Publishing Group, 2003-2005.
• Notes:

• Kiwi, kiwi

• viqui

Unadapted borrowing from English wiki.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbi.ki]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvi.ki]

wiki m (plural wikis)

1. wiki

From English wiki.

wiki

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

wiki

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Wikipedia

• Wiki

wiki

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) article on Wikipedia

• Spelling variants
  • weki (traditional)

wīki

1. heavy

Borrowed from English wiki.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈviki/, /ˈvikʰi/, /ˈwikʰi/^[1]

wiki c (singular definite wikien, plural indefinite wikier)

1. A wiki.^[1]

• wikikette
• wikikode
• Wikipedia
• Wikipediabrugerside

• kiwi

Borrowed from English wiki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiki/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

1. wiki

• wikiën

• kiwi

From English wiki, formed from Hawaiian wikiwiki.

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

wiki

1. wiki (collaborative website)

• “wiki”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[6] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

Borrowed from English wiki.

• IPA^(key): /wi.ki/

• Audio:

  (file)

wiki m (plural wikis)

1. wiki

• wikifier
• Wikipédia
• Wiktionnaire

• kiwi

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈwi.ki/, [ˈʋi.ti]

wiki

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

• wikiwiki

• Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “wiki”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

Borrowed from English wiki.

• Hyphenation: wi‧ki

wiki (first-person possessive wikiku, second-person possessive wikimu, third-person possessive wikinya)

1. wiki

• “wiki” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

wiki

1. Rōmaji transcription of ウィキ

Borrowed from English week.

wiki

1. week

   palu wiki : two weeks

• Bill Palmer, Kokota Grammar, page 380 →ISBN

Borrowed from English wiki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwi˦kə˧/, /ˈwi˦ki˨/

wiki m

1. wiki

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvʲikʲi/

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

• konjece wiki
• pjenjezne wiki
• wikowanišćo
• wjelike wiki

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

wiki

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

Transliteration of English week

wiki

1. week

Transliteration of English wick

wiki

1. wick; fuse

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

wiki m

1. A wiki.

• wikifisere

Unadapted borrowing from English wiki.

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

1. wiki (website allowing collaborative editing of content)

Borrowed from English wiki.

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

wiki m or f same meaning (plural wikis)

1. wiki

From English week.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwi.ki/

wiki

1. week

Borrowed from English week.^[1]

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

wiki (n class, plural wiki)

1. a week

• juma

Borrowed from English wiki.

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

wiki c

1. wiki.

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

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.

wiki

1. twenty

Borrowed from English wiki.

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

wiki (definite accusative wikiyi, plural wikiler)

1. wiki

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 Nominative 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 Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular wikimi wikilerimi 2nd singular wikini wikilerini 3rd singular wikisini wikilerini 1st plural wikimizi wikilerimizi 2nd plural wikinizi wikilerinizi 3rd plural wikilerini wikilerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular wikime wikilerime 2nd singular wikine wikilerine 3rd singular wikisine wikilerine 1st plural wikimize wikilerimize 2nd plural wikinize wikilerinize 3rd plural wikilerine wikilerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular wikimde wikilerimde 2nd singular wikinde wikilerinde 3rd singular wikisinde wikilerinde 1st plural wikimizde wikilerimizde 2nd plural wikinizde wikilerinizde 3rd plural wikilerinde wikilerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular wikimden wikilerimden 2nd singular wikinden wikilerinden 3rd singular wikisinden wikilerinden 1st plural wikimizden wikilerimizden 2nd plural wikinizden wikilerinizden 3rd plural wikilerinden wikilerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular wikimin wikilerimin 2nd singular wikinin wikilerinin 3rd singular wikisinin wikilerinin 1st plural wikimizin wikilerimizin 2nd plural wikinizin wikilerinizin 3rd plural wikilerinin wikilerinin