English
forkless
From fork + -less.
Formed from fork + -less
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
adj Without a fork or forks.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / forkless