Etymology

interwiki

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Today it means: Between wikis. Full definition →

English wiki ← Middle English web ← Old English webb
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥ter
  4. Latininter
  5. Latininter-
  6. Englishinter-
  7. Proto-Polynesian*witi
  8. Hawaiianwiki
  9. Hawaiianwikiwiki
  10. Proto-Indo-European*webʰ-
  11. Proto-Germanic*webaną
  12. Proto-Germanic*wabją
  13. Old Englishwebb
  14. Middle Englishweb
  15. Englishweb
  16. EnglishWikiWikiWebclip.
  17. Englishwiki
  18. English todayinterwiki

From inter- + wiki.

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