Etymology

wiki

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Today it means: A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it. Full definition →

English WikiWikiWebclip. ← Middle English web ← Old English webb
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  1. Proto-Polynesian*witi
  2. Hawaiianwiki
  3. Hawaiianwikiwiki
  4. Proto-Indo-European*webʰ-
  5. Proto-Germanic*webaną
  6. Proto-Germanic*wabją
  7. Old Englishwebb
  8. Middle Englishweb
  9. Englishweb
  10. EnglishWikiWikiWebclip.
  11. English todaywiki

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

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