Etymology

kiiking

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Today it means: An Estonian extreme sport involving a person making a swing known as a kiik gain increasingly more momentum. Full definition →

Estonian kiik ← Proto-Finnic *kiikkudak
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  1. Proto-Finnic*kiikkudak
  2. Estoniankiikumadeverb.?
  3. Estoniankiik
  4. English todaykiiking

Derived from Estonian kiik.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.