vork
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See also: võrk
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch vorke, from Old Dutch furka, from Proto-West Germanic *furkō, from Latin furca. Doublet of fork.
Pronunciation
Noun
vork f (plural vorken, diminutive vorkje n)
- forked object
- basic piece of cutlery with two or more teeth
- other pronged tool
- fork of a two-wheeled vehicle
- intersection, split
- interval, range of values
Derived terms
- aalvork
- achtervork
- eetvork
- gebaksvork
- gevorkt
- hooivork
- mestvork
- prijsvork
- slavork
- stemvork
- taartvork
- tafelvork
- visvork
- vleesvork
- voorvork
- vorken
- vorkheftruck
- vorkstaartkoningstiran
- vorktruck
- vorkvorm
Descendants
- 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
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English forke, from Old English force, from Proto-West Germanic *furkō.
Pronunciation
Noun
vork
References
- 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
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