fork

Phrases
An user
He
👨
  took   his   plate grabbed   a
🅰️
  knife
🔪
  and   fork   and   scowled   at   the   savagery   on television .

Il a pris son assiette, a attrapé un couteau et une fourchette et a frappé à la sauvagerie à la télévision.

An user
Town
🏙️
  Fork   settlers   formed   a
🅰️
  bond   with   Moravians   in  Bethania  and   Bethabara .

Les colons de la fourche de ville ont formé un lien avec les Moraves en Bethania et Bethabara.

Signification (Anglais)

👉👌
fuck

Concepts

se diviser

fork

s’éparpiller

se ramifier

enfourchure

se séparer de

sépareation

être partagé

se séparer en

forker

partir

Opposé de
confluence, single source of truth, SSOT
Fréquence

C1
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/fɔːk/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

From Middle English forke (“digging fork”), from Old English force, forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *furkō (“fork”), from Latin furca (“pitchfork, forked stake; gallows, beam, stake, support post, yoke”), of uncertain origin. The Middle English word was later reinforced by Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French forque (= Old French forche whence French fourche), also from the Latin. Doublet of fourche and furcate. Cognate also with North Frisian forck (“fork”), Dutch vork (“fork”), Danish fork (“fork”), German Forke (“pitchfork”). Displaced native gafol, ġeafel, ġeafle (“fork”), from Old English. In its primary sense of “fork”, Latin furca appears to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerk(ʷ)-, *ǵʰerg(ʷ)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to Proto-Germanic *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *perg- (“pole, post”). If so, this would relate the word to Old English forclas pl (“bolt”), Old Saxon ferkal (“lock, bolt, bar”), Old Norse forkr (“pole, staff, stick”), Norwegian fork (“stick, bat”), Swedish fork (“pole”).

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