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Don’t tell me “fork” and “four” are related. Did my homework: “Old English forca, force (denoting a farm implement), based on Latin furca ‘pitchfork, forked st
by wjnc 2y ago
Don’t tell me “fork” and “four” are related.
Did my homework:
“Old English forca, force (denoting a farm implement), based on Latin furca ‘pitchfork, forked stick’; reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French furke (also from Latin furca ).”
Four in Latin is quattuor. Scared me there.
- hgomersall 2y agoIt definitely is: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0CmaLgxLDE0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0CmaLgxLDE0
- cenamus 2y agoHowever, Latin quattuor and english four are related through the PIE word kʷetwóres, as basically all words for 4 in indoeuropean languages are
- yard2010 2y agoIn my humble linguistics experience where there's smoke there's fire - many new languages words that sound similar may have and common abstract ancestor in one of the old proto languages
- shkkmo 2y agoYet 'consume' and 'consummate' have entirely separate origins so it isn't always a safe assumption.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y agoNo. A forked stick does not have 4 branches, nor does a fork in the road.
- theodric 2y agoI have some Dansk (which is Finnish, because logic is for Vulcans) flatware from the 1970s which instead of having forks has threeks. Still stabs food pretty well.