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English word fork comes from Latin furca, and later Proto-Germanic *furkô (Fork.)
furca (Latin)
A fork-shaped prop, pole or stake.. A two-pronged fork, pitchfork.. An instrument of punishment, a frame in the form of a fork, which was placed on a culprit's neck, while his hands were fastened to the two ends; yoke.
*furkô (Proto-Germanic)
Fork.
force (Old English)
forke (Middle English)
fork (English)
(British) Crotch.. (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).. (colloquial) A forklift.. (computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.. (computer science) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two [...]