furca
Irish
Declension
Fourth declension
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
furca | fhurca | bhfurca |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- "furca" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “furca” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Latin
Etymology
First recorded in Late Latin; uncertain origin. In its primary sense of "fork", Latin furca appears to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerk(ʷ)-, *ǵʰerg(ʷ)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to Proto-Germanic *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *perg- (“pole, post”). If so, this would relate the word to Old English forclas pl (“bolt”), Old Saxon ferkal (“lock, bolt, bar”), Old Norse forkr (“pole, staff, stick”), Norwegian fork (“stick, bat”), Swedish fork (“pole”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfur.ka/, [ˈfʊr.ka]
Noun
furca f (genitive furcae); first declension
Declension
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | furca | furcae |
Genitive | furcae | furcārum |
Dative | furcae | furcīs |
Accusative | furcam | furcās |
Ablative | furcā | furcīs |
Vocative | furca | furcae |
Related terms
- furcillātus
- furcillō
Descendants
- Aromanian: furcã
- Dalmatian: fuarca
- Friulian: forcje
- Italian: forca
- Old French: furche, forche
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: forca
- Old Occitan:
- Old Portuguese:
- Romanian: furcă
- Old Spanish: forca
- Spanish: horca
- Romansch: furtga, fuortga, fuorcha
- Sardinian: frúca, furca
- Sicilian: furca
- Venetian: forca
- → Albanian: furkë
- → Brythonic: *forx
- Welsh: fforch
- → Germanic: *furkô (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Irish: forc
See also
References
- furca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- furca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- furca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- furca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- furca in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- furca in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin