fork
要点フォーク
意味
- (食卓用の)フォーク
- くま手,またぐわ
- (川・道路などの)分岐点;別れ道,分流,分枝
- 〈干し草など〉をくま手でかき上げる(刺す)
- (川・道路・枝などが)分岐する
- 〈人が〉(左右の)別れ道をとる
例文
I need a spoon, a fork, and a knife. Thank you.
スプーンとフォークとナイフが要る。どうも。
We use chopsticks in place of knives and forks.
私たちはナイフとフォークの代わりに箸を使う。
Put the knives and forks back in the cupboard.
ナイフとフォークを食器棚に片付けておきなさい。
語源
ラテン語furca「(干し草用の)熊手・二股の棒」から先が分かれた食器「フォーク」。
道などの「分岐」の意味もこの二股の形から。
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English forke (“digging fork”), from Old English force, forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *furkō (“fork”), from Latin furca (“pitchfork, forked stake; gallows, beam, stake, support post, yoke”), of uncertain origin. The Middle English word was later reinforced by Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French forque (= Old French forche whence French fourche), also from the Latin. Doublet of fourche and furcate. Cognate also with North Frisian forck (“fork”), Dutch vork (“fork”), Danish fork (“fork”), German Forke (“pitchfork”). Displaced native gafol, ġeafel, ġeafle (“fork”), from Old English.