interwiki

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/ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈwɪki/

adjective

Between wikis.

OriginEnglish wiki ← Middle English web ← Old English webb →
UncommonScrabble 16
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Meanings

adjectiveinterwiki (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBetween wikis.

    interwiki link

    a link from one wiki to a page on another wiki

nouninterwiki (plural interwikis)

plural interwikis

  1. An interwiki link.
verbinterwiki (third-person singular simple present interwikis, present participle interwikiing, simple past and past participle interwikied)

present singular third person interwikis · participle present interwikiing · participle past interwikied · past interwikied

  1. To create interwiki links (hyperlinks between wikis).

    Any page, not just articles, can be interwikied.

    2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, →ISBN, page 415

Origin

  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. Englishinterwiki

From inter- + wiki.

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Cite this entry
APA

interwiki. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interwiki

MLA

“interwiki.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interwiki. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “interwiki,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interwiki.

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