wiki
English
Etymology
1995.[1] Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.
Pronunciation
- enPR: wĭʹkē, wēʹkē, IPA(key): /ˈwɪki/, /ˈwiːki/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪki, -iːki
- Homophones: wicky, weaky, wickie
Noun
wiki (plural wikis)
- A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
wiki (third-person singular simple present wikis, present participle wikiing, simple past and past participle wikied)
- (transitive, intransitive) To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
- To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
- 2008 December 1, GeekDad, “Son of a Geek: Comics and Growing Up the DC Way”, in Wired News:
- I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe
- 2010, Noemi Gonzalez, Journey, page 65:
- I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied” it.
- (intransitive) To contribute to a wiki.
- 2006, Deptford Tv, Deptford.TV Diaries, page 73:
- Blogging, wiki-ing, coding are all activities that generate authorial product.
- 2007, Dan Woods with Peter Thoeny, Wikis for dummies, page 17:
- The best way to start wiki-ing is to find an existing wiki (that is, a hosted wiki) and start adding to it.
- 2008, Robert E. Cummings with Matt Barton, Wiki writing: collaborative learning in the college classroom, page 46:
- For example, blog and wiki software can be used to support all sorts of activities that are not commonly associated with the activities of “blogging” or “wikiing.” This includes activities like sharing syllabi, publishing announcements
- (transitive) To participate in the wiki-based production of.
- 2009 October 19, “Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?”, in Time[4], archived from the original on 4 June 2011:
- The history of wikied novels isn't pretty (Penguin Books never published the gobbledygook that was "A Million Penguins"), and no one has dared wiki a jazz song.
Translations
References
- “wiki”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- "wiki" in the Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.6), Lexico Publishing Group, 2003-2005.
- Notes:
Anagrams
Catalan
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English wiki.
Pronunciation
Noun
wiki m (plural wikis)
Chinese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
wiki
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) to wiki; to research on Wikipedia
Proper noun
wiki
Alternative forms
Noun
wiki
Choctaw
Alternative forms
- Spelling variants
- weki (traditional)
Adjective
wīki
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English wiki.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
wiki c (singular definite wikien, plural indefinite wikier)
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “wiki” in Den Danske Ordbog.
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
wiki m (plural wiki's, diminutive wikietje n)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
From English wiki, formed from Hawaiian wikiwiki.
Pronunciation
Noun
wiki
- wiki (collaborative website)
Declension
Inflection of wiki (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | wiki | wikit | ||
genitive | wikin | wikien | ||
partitive | wikiä | wikejä | ||
illative | wikiin | wikeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | wiki | wikit | ||
accusative | nom. | wiki | wikit | |
gen. | wikin | |||
genitive | wikin | wikien | ||
partitive | wikiä | wikejä | ||
inessive | wikissä | wikeissä | ||
elative | wikistä | wikeistä | ||
illative | wikiin | wikeihin | ||
adessive | wikillä | wikeillä | ||
ablative | wikiltä | wikeiltä | ||
allative | wikille | wikeille | ||
essive | wikinä | wikeinä | ||
translative | wikiksi | wikeiksi | ||
instructive | — | wikein | ||
abessive | wikittä | wikeittä | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
- "wiki" in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish).
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
wiki m (plural wikis)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Hawaiian
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *witi (note: only attested in Central-Eastern Polynesian).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
wiki
Conjugation
Infinitive | e wiki | |||
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Perfect | i wiki | |||
Passive | wiki ʻia | |||
Tenses | ||||
Present | ke wiki nei | |||
Future | e wiki | |||
Past | i wiki | |||
Perfective | ua wiki | |||
Imperfective | e wiki ana | |||
Pluperfective | ua wiki ʻē | |||
Intentive | ō wiki | |||
Imperative | e wiki! | |||
Negative Tenses | ||||
Perfective | ʻaʻole i wiki | |||
Imperfective | ʻaʻole e wiki ana | |||
Pluperfective | ʻaʻole i wiki ʻē | |||
Intentive | ʻaʻole wiki | |||
Imperative | mai wiki! |
Derived terms
References
- Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert (1986), “wiki”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
- ^ “POLLEX entry”, in (please provide the title of the work)[2], accessed 18 February 2022, archived from the original on 2021-05-09
Indonesian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: wi‧ki
Noun
wiki (first-person possessive wikiku, second-person possessive wikimu, third-person possessive wikinya)
Further reading
- “wiki” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Japanese
Romanization
wiki
Kokota
Etymology
Noun
wiki
- week
- palu wiki : two weeks
References
- Bill Palmer, Kokota Grammar, page 380 →ISBN
Limburgish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
wiki m
Inflection
This entry needs an inflection-table template.
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German wīk, from Latin vicus.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
wiki pl (plural only)
- (literary, commerce) market
- Stwórtk su pśecej wiki.
- The market is always [open] on Thursdays.
- 1998, Erwin Hannusch, chapter 1, in Niedersorbisch praktisch und verständlich, Bautzen: Domowina Verlag, →ISBN, page 20:
- Tšochu dalej su Stare wiki.
- Somewhat further on is the Old Market.
- town square
Declension
plural (plurale tantum) | |
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Nominative | wiki |
Genitive | wikow |
Dative | wikam |
Accusative | wiki |
Instrumental | wikami |
Locative | wikach |
Derived terms
References
- ^ Bartels, Hauke (2009). "Lower Sorbian vocabulary". In Haspelmath, Martin; Tadmor, Uri. World Loanword Database. Munich: Max Planck Digital Library. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
Further reading
- Starosta, Manfred: Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik, Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšyn, 1999., →ISBN
- Šwjela, Bogumil: Dolnoserbsko-němski słownik, Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšyn, 1963., p. 451.
Maori
Etymology 1
Verb
wiki
- to form circular ripples on the surface of a fluid
Etymology 2
Transliteration of English week
Noun
wiki
Etymology 3
Transliteration of English wick
Noun
wiki
Norwegian
Etymology
Borrowed from English wiki, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”).
Pronunciation
Noun
wiki m
- A wiki.
Inflection
Derived terms
Portuguese
Noun
wiki f or (less common) m (plural wikis)
- wiki (website allowing collaborative editing of content)
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
wiki m or f same meaning (plural wikis)
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
wiki
Swahili
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun
wiki (n class, plural wiki)
- a week
Synonyms
Swedish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
wiki c
- wiki.
Declension
Declension of wiki | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | wiki | wikin | wikier | wikierna |
Genitive | wikis | wikins | wikiers | wikiernas |
The plurals are not agreed upon, other words for the indefinite plural nominative presently in use include wikier, wikis, wikisar, wikior, wikiar, wiki etc.
Tocharian A
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *w'īkän, from Proto-Indo-European *(d)wi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (cognate with Latin vīgintī, Ancient Greek εἴκοσι (eíkosi), Doric ϝείκατι (weíkati), Sanskrit विंशति (viṃśati), Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (vīsaiti), Ossetian инсӕй (insæj), Armenian քսան (kʿsan), Albanian (një)zet, Welsh ugain). Compare Tocharian B ikäṃ.
Numeral
wiki
Turkish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
wiki (definite accusative wikiyi, plural wikiler)
Declension
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Dative | wikiye | wikilere | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | wikide | wikilerde | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | wikiden | wikilerden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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