fork
Danish
/fɔrk/
noun
Definitions
- (two-pronged) forkfork, pitchfork
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse forkr (stick, staff, pole, bar, boathook, iron-clad pole used for propelling a boat) derived from Latin furca (pitchfork, fork, forked stake, also gallows, beam, yoke, support post, stake, two-pronged fork).
Origin
Latin
furca
Gloss
pitchfork, fork, forked stake, also gallows, beam, yoke, support post, stake, two-pronged fork
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bifurcate English
- dungfork English
- fork English
- forkable English
- forkball English
- forkbeard English
- forken English
- forker English
- forkful English
- forkhead English
- forkless English
- forklift English
- forklike English
- forkmaker English
- forktail English
- forkweed English
- forky English
- furciform English
- hayfork English
- meatfork English
- multifork English
- pitchfork English
- prefork English
- shakefork English
- *furcatūra Latin
- *infurcāre Latin
- *infurcō Latin
- furca Latin
- furcatus Latin
- furcifer Latin
- furcilla Latin
- furcula Latin
- forca Italian
- fork Dutch, Flemish
- forqueta Spanish, Castilian
- horca Spanish, Castilian
- *ǵʰerk(ʷ)- Proto-Indo-European
- *furkô Proto-Germanic
- *furkǭ Proto-Germanic
- フォーク Japanese
- forke Middle English
- forkr Old Norse
- forko Esperanto
- forca Catalan, Valencian
- forcado Galician
- furco Galician
- furcă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- fforc Welsh
- furka Old High German
- forc Old Irish
- fourque Norman
- furka Old Dutch
- forca Old Portuguese
- furcã Aromanian
- Furgge Alemannic German
- 포크 Korean
- fuorcha Romansh
- fuortga Romansh
- furtga Romansh
- imfologo Zulu
- forcje Friulian
- furke Old Frisian
- forca Old Spanish
- furchetta Sicilian
- pok Tok Pisin
- forque xno
- fórca Ligurian
- fuarca Dalmatian
- imfologo Swati
- *forx Proto-Brythonic
- forku Sranan Tongo
- forque ONF.
- fók Chuukese
- faank Fiji Hindi
- fok West Uvean
- fook Kumak