Ah, but in etymology "to come from" does not equate to "to be". And of course in PIE we don't talk in roots, but in egregiously fully inflected words.
On 7/7/05, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
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
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