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Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Polynesian *witi

Hawaiian wiki

Hawaiian wikiwiki

Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *webaną

Proto-Germanic *wabją

Old English webb

Middle English web

English web

English WikiWikiWebclip.

English wiki

First appearance in 1995 in PC Week. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.

Pronunciation

• enPR: wĭʹkē, wēʹkē, IPA^(key): /ˈwɪki/, /ˈwiːki/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪkɪj/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Audio (Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪki, -iːki
• Homophones: wicky, weaky, wickie

Noun

wiki (plural wikis)

2. A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.

   He spent time editing articles on the wiki.

Derived terms

Derived terms of wiki (proper nouns)

• reception wiki
• Wikiholism
• Wikimania
• wiki page
• Wikipedist
• Wiktionarian
• Wiktionary

Other terms derived from wiki

• interwiki
• off-wiki
• on-wiki
• subwiki
• The Other Wiki
• transwiki
• wikian
• wikibreak
• wikicode
• wiki crack
• wiki farm
• wikifarm
• wikification
• wikify
• Wikiholic
• wikiholic
• wikilawyering
• wikiless
• wikilike
• wikilink
• wiki magic
• wiki markup
• wikiness
• wikinomics
• wikipage
• wikiphobe
• wikiphobia
• wikiquette
• wikisphere
• wikistorming
• wikitext
• wikitime
• wikitorial
• wikiverse
• wiki walk
• Wiknic

Translations

collaborative website

• Afrikaans: wiki
• Arabic: وِيكِي (ar) m (wikī)
• Armenian: վիքի (vikʻi)
• Assamese: ৱিকি (wiki)
• Azerbaijani: viki
• Belarusian: ві́кі f (víki)
• Bengali: উইকি (bn) (uiki)
• Bulgarian: уи́ки (bg) n (uíki)
• Burmese: ဝီကီ (wiki)
• Carpathian Rusyn: вікі (viki)
• Catalan: wiki (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 維基 / 维基 (wai⁴ gei¹)

  Eastern Min: 維基 / 维基 (mì-gĭ)

  Hakka: 維基 / 维基 (vì-kî)

  Hokkien: 維基 / 维基 (zh-min-nan) (ûi-ki)

  Mandarin: 維基 / 维基 (zh) (wéijī)

  Wu: 維基 / 维基 (⁶vi-ci)

• Chuvash: вики (vik̬i)
• Danish: wiki (da) c
• Dutch: wiki (nl) m
• Esperanto: vikio (eo)
• Estonian: viki
• Finnish: wiki (fi)
• French: wiki (fr) m
• Georgian: ვიკი (ka) (viḳi)
• German: Wiki (de) n
• Greek: βίκι (el) n (víki)

  Pontic Greek: βικι (viki)

• Hebrew: וִיקִי (he) m (wiki)
• Hindi: विकि (viki)
• Hungarian: wiki (hu)
• Indonesian: wiki (id)
• Ingush: вики (viki)
• Interlingua: wiki
• Inuktitut: ᐅᐃᑭ (oiki)
• Irish: vicí (ga) m
• Italian: wiki (it) m
• Japanese: ウィキ (ja) (wiki)
• Kalmyk: бики (biki)
• Kazakh: уики (uiki)
• Khmer: វិគី (vikii)
• Korean: 위키 (ko) (wiki)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: wîkî (ku) f

• Latin: vici (la) n
• Latvian: viki m
• Lithuanian: viki m
• Luxembourgish: Wiki n
• Macedonian: вики n (viki)
• Malay: wiki
• Malayalam: വിക്കി (vikki)
• Marathi: विकी (vikī)
• Mongolian: вики (viki)
• Nahuatl: huiqui
• Nepali: विकि (ne) (viki)
• Norman: ouitchi m, wiki m
• Norwegian: wiki (no)
• Persian: ویکی (fa) (viki)
• Polish: wiki (pl) m
• Portuguese: wiki (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਵਿਕਿ (viki)
• Quechua: wiki
• Romanian: wiki (ro) n
• Russian: ви́ки (ru) f (víki)
• Sanskrit: विकिः (vikiḥ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вики

  Latin: viki

• Shan: ဝီႇၶီႇ (wìi khìi)
• Sinhalese: විකි (wiki)
• Spanish: wiki (es) m
• Swedish: wiki (sv) c
• Tajik: вики (vik-i)
• Tamil: விக்கி (vikki)
• Telugu: వికీ (vikī)
• Thai: วิกิ (th) (wí-gì)
• Tibetan: ཝི་ཀི (wi ki)
• Turkish: viki (tr)
• Ukrainian: ві́кі (uk) f (víki)
• Vietnamese: wiki (vi)
• Volapük: vük
• Võro: viki
• Welsh: wici (cy) m
• Yiddish: וויקי (viki)

Verb

wiki (third-person singular simple present wikis, present participle wikiing, simple past and past participle wikied)

1. (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

   • 2009 June 18, Lizz Holmans, “Janus”, in uk.rec.sheds‎^[4] (Usenet):

     Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe'

   • 2010, Noemi Gonzalez, Journey, page 65:

     I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied” it.

2. (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

3. (transitive) To participate in the wiki-based production of.
   • 2009 October 19, “Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?”, in Time‎^[5], 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

research on a wiki

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 上 Wiki, 上維基 / 上维基

• Dutch: wikiën
• Finnish: hakea wikistä, wikittää
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: ウィキる (wikiru)
• Limburgish: wikieë
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Tagalog: wiki (tl)

contribute to a wiki

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 寫維基 / 写维基, 寫 Wiki / 写 Wiki

• Dutch: wikiën
• Esperanto: vikiumi
• Finnish: muokata wikiä
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: ウィキする (wiki-suru), ウィキる (wiki-ru)
• Limburgish: bewikieë
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Tagalog: wiki (tl)

See also

• .wiki
• sukuma wiki

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

• Kiwi, kiwi

Catalan

Alternative forms

• viqui

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central, Northwestern) [ˈbi.ki]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvi.ki]

Noun

wiki m (plural wikis)

1. wiki

Chinese

Etymology

From English wiki.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wi¹ ki², wik¹ ki²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wi¹ ki², wik¹ ki²
    • Yale: wī kí, wīk kí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wi¹ ki², wik⁷ ki²
    • Guangdong Romanization: wi¹ ki², wig¹ ki²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wiː⁵⁵ kʰiː³⁵ wɪk̚⁵ kʰiː³⁵/

Verb

wiki

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to wiki; to research on Wikipedia

Proper noun

wiki

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Wiki

Noun

wiki

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) article on Wikipedia

Choctaw

Alternative forms

• Spelling variants
  • weki (traditional)

Adjective

wīki

1. heavy

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviki/, /ˈvikʰi/, /ˈwikʰi/

Noun

wiki c (singular definite wikien, plural indefinite wikier)

1. A wiki.

Inflection

Declension of wiki

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	wiki	wikien	wikier	wikierne
genitive	wikis	wikiens	wikiers	wikiernes

Derived terms

• wikikette
• wikikode
• Wikipedia
• Wikipediabrugerside

Anagrams

• kiwi

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiki/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

wiki m (plural wiki's, diminutive wikietje n)

1. wiki

Derived terms

• wikiën

Anagrams

• kiwi

Finnish

Etymology

From English wiki, formed from Hawaiian wikiwiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiki/, [ˈwik̟i]
• Rhymes: -iki
• Syllabification^(key): wi‧ki
• Hyphenation^(key): wi‧ki

Noun

wiki

1. wiki (collaborative website)

Declension

Inflection of wiki (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
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
abessive		wikittä	wikeittä
instructive		—	wikein
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of wiki (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative wikini wikini accusative nom. wikini wikini gen. wikini genitive wikini wikieni partitive wikiäni wikejäni inessive wikissäni wikeissäni elative wikistäni wikeistäni illative wikiini wikeihini adessive wikilläni wikeilläni ablative wikiltäni wikeiltäni allative wikilleni wikeilleni essive wikinäni wikeinäni translative wikikseni wikeikseni abessive wikittäni wikeittäni instructive — — comitative — wikeineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative wikisi wikisi accusative nom. wikisi wikisi gen. wikisi genitive wikisi wikiesi partitive wikiäsi wikejäsi inessive wikissäsi wikeissäsi elative wikistäsi wikeistäsi illative wikiisi wikeihisi adessive wikilläsi wikeilläsi ablative wikiltäsi wikeiltäsi allative wikillesi wikeillesi essive wikinäsi wikeinäsi translative wikiksesi wikeiksesi abessive wikittäsi wikeittäsi instructive — — comitative — wikeinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative wikimme wikimme accusative nom. wikimme wikimme gen. wikimme genitive wikimme wikiemme partitive wikiämme wikejämme inessive wikissämme wikeissämme elative wikistämme wikeistämme illative wikiimme wikeihimme adessive wikillämme wikeillämme ablative wikiltämme wikeiltämme allative wikillemme wikeillemme essive wikinämme wikeinämme translative wikiksemme wikeiksemme abessive wikittämme wikeittämme instructive — — comitative — wikeinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative wikinne wikinne accusative nom. wikinne wikinne gen. wikinne genitive wikinne wikienne partitive wikiänne wikejänne inessive wikissänne wikeissänne elative wikistänne wikeistänne illative wikiinne wikeihinne adessive wikillänne wikeillänne ablative wikiltänne wikeiltänne allative wikillenne wikeillenne essive wikinänne wikeinänne translative wikiksenne wikeiksenne abessive wikittänne wikeittänne instructive — — comitative — wikeinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative wikinsä wikinsä accusative nom. wikinsä wikinsä gen. wikinsä genitive wikinsä wikiensä partitive wikiään wikiänsä wikejään wikejänsä inessive wikissään wikissänsä wikeissään wikeissänsä elative wikistään wikistänsä wikeistään wikeistänsä illative wikiinsä wikeihinsä adessive wikillään wikillänsä wikeillään wikeillänsä ablative wikiltään wikiltänsä wikeiltään wikeiltänsä allative wikilleen wikillensä wikeilleen wikeillensä essive wikinään wikinänsä wikeinään wikeinänsä translative wikikseen wikiksensä wikeikseen wikeiksensä abessive wikittään wikittänsä wikeittään wikeittänsä instructive — — comitative — wikeineen wikeinensä

Derived terms

compounds

• Wikisanakirja
• wikisivusto
• wikiteksti

Further reading

• “wiki”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[6] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi.ki/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)):

  (file)

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Agen)):

  (file)

Noun

wiki m (plural wikis)

1. wiki

Derived terms

• wikifier
• wikiprojet
• Wikipédia
• Wiktionnaire

Anagrams

• kiwi

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *witi. Note that this reconstruction is only attested in Central-Eastern Polynesian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwi.ki/, [ˈʋi.ti]

Verb

wiki

1. (stative) to hasten, to speed up
2. (stative) to be swift, to be speedy, to be quick

Derived terms

• wikiwiki

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈwiki/ [ˈwi.ki]
• Rhymes: -iki
• Syllabification: wi‧ki

Noun

wiki (plural wiki-wiki)

1. wiki

Further reading

• “wiki”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Japanese

Romanization

wiki

1. Rōmaji transcription of ウィキ

Kokota

Etymology

Borrowed from English week.

Noun

wiki

1. week

   palu wiki : two weeks

References

• Bill Palmer, Kokota Grammar, page 380 →ISBN

Latvian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wiki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviki/

Noun

wiki m (invariable)

1. wiki

Limburgish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwi˦kə˧/, /ˈwi˦ki˨/

Noun

wiki m

1. wiki

Inflection

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Lower Sorbian

1. wiki

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German wīk, from Latin vicus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvʲi.kʲi/
• Rhymes: -ikʲi
• Syllabification: wi‧ki

Noun

wiki pl

1. (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.

2. town square

Declension

Declension of wiki

	plural (plurale tantum)
Nominative	wiki
Genitive	wikow
Dative	wikam
Accusative	wiki
Instrumental	wikami
Locative	wikach

Derived terms

• konjece wiki
• pjenjezne wiki
• wikowanišćo
• wjelike wiki

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.

Māori

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiki/ [ˈwiki]

Etymology 1

Verb

wiki

1. to form circular ripples on the surface of a fluid

Etymology 2

Transliteration of English week.

Noun

wiki

1. week

Derived terms

• mutunga wiki (“weekend”)

Etymology 3

Transliteration of English wick.

Noun

wiki

1. wick; fuse

Further reading

• John C. Moorfield (2011), “wiki”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”).

Noun

wiki m (definite singular wikien, indefinite plural wikier, definite plural wikiene)

1. wiki

Derived terms

• wikifisere

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”).

Noun

wiki m (definite singular wikien, indefinite plural wikiar, definite plural wikiane)

1. wiki

Derived terms

• wikifisere

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Polynesian *witi

Hawaiian wiki

Hawaiian wikiwiki

Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *webaną

Proto-Germanic *wabją

Old English webb

Middle English web

English web

English WikiWikiWebclip.

English wikiubor.

Portuguese wiki

Unadapted borrowing from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈwi.ki/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈwi.ki/

• Rhymes: -iki
• Hyphenation: wi‧ki

Noun

wiki f or (less common) m (plural wikis)

1. wiki (website allowing collaborative editing of content)

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Polynesian *witi

Hawaiian wiki

Hawaiian wikiwiki

Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *webaną

Proto-Germanic *wabją

Old English webb

Middle English web

English web

English WikiWikiWebclip.

English wikibor.

Spanish wiki

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiki/ [ˈwi.ki], /ˈɡwiki/ [ˈɡwi.ki]
• Rhymes: -iki
• Syllabification: wi‧ki

Noun

wiki m or f same meaning (plural wikis)

1. wiki

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English week.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wiki/, [wici], [wit͡ʃi]

Noun

wiki

1. week

Swahili

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *weyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *wikǭ

Proto-West Germanic *wikā

Old English wiċe

Middle English wyke

English weekbor.

Swahili wiki

Borrowed from English week.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Noun

wiki class IX (plural wiki class X)

1. a week

   wiki iliyopita ― last week

Synonyms

• juma

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viːkɪ/, /vɪkɪ/, /wiːkɪ/, /wɪkɪ/

Noun

wiki c

1. wiki.

Declension

Declension of wiki

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	wiki	wikis
	definite	wikin	wikins
plural	indefinite	wikier	wikiers
	definite	wikierna	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 (kʻsan), Albanian (një)zet, Welsh ugain). Compare Tocharian B ikäṃ.

Numeral

wiki

1. twenty

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvici/, /ˈɥici/
• Hyphenation: wi‧ki

Noun

wiki (definite accusative wikiyi, plural wikiler)

1. wiki

Declension

Declension of wiki

singular plural nominative wiki wikiler definite accusative wikiyi wikileri dative wikiye wikilere locative wikide wikilerde ablative wikiden wikilerden genitive wikinin wikilerin Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular wikim wikilerim 2nd singular wikin wikilerin 3rd singular wikisi wikileri 1st plural wikimiz wikilerimiz 2nd plural wikiniz wikileriniz 3rd plural wikileri wikileri definite accusative singular plural 1st singular wikimi wikilerimi 2nd singular wikini wikilerini 3rd singular wikisini wikilerini 1st plural wikimizi wikilerimizi 2nd plural wikinizi wikilerinizi 3rd plural wikilerini wikilerini dative singular plural 1st singular wikime wikilerime 2nd singular wikine wikilerine 3rd singular wikisine wikilerine 1st plural wikimize wikilerimize 2nd plural wikinize wikilerinize 3rd plural wikilerine wikilerine locative singular plural 1st singular wikimde wikilerimde 2nd singular wikinde wikilerinde 3rd singular wikisinde wikilerinde 1st plural wikimizde wikilerimizde 2nd plural wikinizde wikilerinizde 3rd plural wikilerinde wikilerinde ablative singular plural 1st singular wikimden wikilerimden 2nd singular wikinden wikilerinden 3rd singular wikisinden wikilerinden 1st plural wikimizden wikilerimizden 2nd plural wikinizden wikilerinizden 3rd plural wikilerinden wikilerinden genitive singular plural 1st singular wikimin wikilerimin 2nd singular wikinin wikilerinin 3rd singular wikisinin wikilerinin 1st plural wikimizin wikilerimizin 2nd plural wikinizin wikilerinizin 3rd plural wikilerinin wikilerinin

Unami

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Algonquian *wi·kiwa (“to dwell”).

Verb

wiki (VAI (animate-subject intransitive))

1. To dwell, to have a house, to reside.
   • Nora Thompson Dean, “Na Òkwës Òk Na Chëmamës Achimëwakàn [The Fox and The Rabbit Story]”, in Lenape Talking Dictionary‎^[7]:

     Kwëtën òkwës wiku kixki sipunk.

     Once upon a time, a fox was living near a creek.

Conjugation

present indicative conjugation of wiki

wiki
1st person singular	nëwiki
2nd person singular	kwiki
3rd person singular	wiku
1st person plural inclusive	nëwikihëna
1st person plural exclusive	kwikihëna
2nd person plural	kwikihëmo
3rd person plural	wikuwàk

present conjunct conjugation of wiki

wiki
1st person singular	wikia
2nd person singular	wikiàn
3rd person singular	wikit
1st person plural inclusive	wikiènkw
1st person plural exclusive	wikiènkw
2nd person plural	wikièkw
3rd person plural	wikihtit

subjunctive conjugation of wiki

wiki
1st person singular	wikiane
2nd person singular	wikiàne
3rd person singular	wikite
1st person plural inclusive	wikiànkwe
1st person plural exclusive	wikiànkwe
2nd person plural	wikièkwe
3rd person plural	wikihtite

Future conjugation of wiki

wiki
1st person singular	nëwikìch or xu nëwiki
2nd person singular	kwikìch or xu kwiki
3rd person singular	wikùch or xu wiku
1st person plural inclusive	nëwikihënàch or xu nëwikihëna
1st person plural exclusive	kwikihënàch or xu këwikihëna
2nd person plural	kwikihëmòch or xu kwikihëmo
3rd person plural	wikuwàkch or xu wikuwàk

References

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “wiku”, in Grant Leneaux, Raymond Whritenour, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project