English
transwiki
From trans- + wiki; coined in 2003 in the Wikimedia context.
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- ‘to cross over, pass through, overcome’
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Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns ‘across, beyond’
Proto-Italic *trāns-
English trans-
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki ‘to be swift, to be speedy, to be quick’
Hawaiian wikiwiki ‘quick’
English wiki
The story
From trans- + wiki; coined in 2003 in the Wikimedia context.
Today it means
verb To move content from one wiki to another, on sites such as Wikimedia projects, Fandom, or PBworks, or in apps such as Microsoft Teams (wiki function therein).
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “transwiki”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / transwiki