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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