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Translation

fork

Word origin

From Latin furca, a two-pronged fork or pitchfork. The same word gave English fork, French fourche and Spanish horca, and it reached Latin long before anyone ate with one.

Origin
Latin
Root
furca
English cognates
fork, bifurcate, furcate

Examples

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Put the fork next to the plate.

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She ate the cake with a fork and spoon.

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The old fork is made of silver.

There is no -ork- suffix. Esperanto's affixes are a closed, published list, and the temptation with a word like this is to look for a seam that is not there. is a single root: - plus the noun ending -o, and nothing else. The same goes for a pig and korko a cork, which rhyme with it and share nothing else. When a word will not come apart, that is an answer and not a failure - see word building on which endings are real morphemes and which are just how the root happens to finish.

It forks the way the English word does. A is the thing beside your plate, and it is also the farmer's pitchfork (o if you want the size suffix to do the work) and the fork of a road or a river. The verb forki is to fork something; i is what the road does when it splits into two - the -- there is the one that turns an action back on itself, covered in igi and iĝi.

On the table. , kulero and o are the set; note that the knife is not a root at all but (to cut) plus --, the tool suffix, so it is literally a cutting-tool. is the cutlery as a whole, and if you want the fully homemade word for a fork you can say o, a pricking-tool - but nobody does, because is international and short.

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This word is part of lesson 45.