English
forkful
From fork + -ful.
Formed from fork + -ful
Latin furca ‘pitchfork, forked stake’
Proto-West Germanic *furkō
Old English force ‘forked instrument used to torture’
Middle English forke ‘digging fork’
English fork
Today it means
noun The amount that a fork will hold.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / forkful