Etymograph

English

knork

Blend of knife + fork.

A blend of knife + fork

Old English cnīf

Middle English knyf ‘knife’

English knife

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 A piece of cutlery in the form of a fork with a sharpened outer tine, enabling it also to be used as a knife.

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

Etymograph / knork