vork

From Middle Dutch vorke, from Old Dutch furka, from Proto-West Germanic *furkō, from Latin furca. Doublet of fork.

• IPA^(key): /vɔrk/

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• Hyphenation: vork
• Rhymes: -ɔrk

vork f (plural vorken, diminutive vorkje n)

1. forked object
   1. basic piece of cutlery with two or more teeth
   2. other pronged tool
   3. fork of a two-wheeled vehicle
2. intersection, split
3. interval, range of values

• Afrikaans: vurk
  • →? Sotho: fereko
  • → Xhosa: ifolokhwe
• Berbice Creole Dutch: forku, foruku
• Negerhollands: vork
• → Caribbean Javanese: forok
• → Indonesian: porok
• → Papiamentu: fòrki (from the diminutive)
• →? Sranan Tongo: forku
  • → Aukan: foluku
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: forku, phorku
  • → Saramaccan: folúku
• → Manado Malay: forok

From Middle English forke, from Old English force, from Proto-West Germanic *furkō.

• IPA^(key): /vɔːk/

vork

1. fork

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 76