English

forkweed

From fork + weed.

A compound of fork + weed

Latin furca ‘pitchfork, forked stake’

Proto-West Germanic *furkō

Old English force ‘forked instrument used to torture’

Middle English forke ‘digging fork’

English fork

Proto-West Germanic *weud

Old English wēod

Middle English weed

English weed

Today it means

noun The alga Dictyota dichotoma

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / forkweed