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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 [...]

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