Etymology

kilikiti

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Today it means: A variant of cricket, originating in Samoa and now played throughout Polynesia, with three-sided wooden bats and teams of no fixed size. Full definition →

English cricket
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The story

  1. English · derived fromcricket
  2. English todaykilikiti

Reborrowing, originally from English cricket.

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