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?
Haruo aka dzidzelalic
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Ros’ Haruo wrote:
So what is Proto-Indo-European for "wiki" anyway?
Well, "wiki" is Hawaiian(sic) for "fast" or "quick". Which raises a disturbing point - we are building "quickie" projects? :)
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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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Mark Williamson 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-"
This is because the VIKIngs, descendants of [[Leif Ericson]], when they got fed up with the climate of Newfoundland, quickly went on to populate Hawaii.
"Mark Williamson" node.ue@gmail.com wrote in message news:849f98ed05070708111753eb44@mail.gmail.com...
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-"
...which as any viewer of "The Beiderbecke Affair" can attest, has survied to this day as the war-cry of the Nukey-Brown brigade:
"Away the lads!"
...which basically means, in polite terms, "let's go chaps!", usually in preparation for some sort of fight, except in the above mentioned program where it was used as an expression of sexual ecstasy, which annoyed the protagonist's girlfriend no end since she naturally expected his mind to be on things other than football at sensitive moments.
Then again, to a native of Newcastle, the two are closely related :-)
HTH HAND
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