English
Wikipedia
Blend of wiki + encyclopedia, coined by Larry Sanger in 2001.
A blend of wiki + encyclopedia
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki ‘to be swift, to be speedy, to be quick’
Hawaiian wikiwiki ‘quick’
English wiki
New Latin encyclopēdīa ‘general education’
English encyclopedia
The story
Blend of wiki + encyclopedia, coined by Larry Sanger in 2001.
Today it means
name A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
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