People say that "Wiki" is derived from the Hawai'ian word wikiwiki.
However, I have an inside source that says that Ward Cunningham got it from an unabridged dictionary. "Wiki" or "Wicky" is from the Anglo-Saxon "wici", which comes from the Proto-Germanic root "*hveik-", which is from the Proto-Indo-European root "*weigh-"
Mark
On 07/07/05, Ros' Haruo rosharuo@gmail.com wrote:
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 23:50:13 +0200 From: Boris Lohnzweiger Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Dutch-Low Saxon test-mainpage To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Message-ID: 1278463972@web.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Dear Wouter,
I can't help but disagree. In my opinion, using Proto-Indo-European for the new Wikipedia is the only viable option. Additional benefit: we could finally close many redundant editions of Wikipedia like en:, fr:, es: ....
Boris
So what is Proto-Indo-European for "wiki" anyway?
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