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fōku

a word from vocabulary Japanese by Christopher K. Schmidt

Word form	fōku
Original script	フォーク
LWT meaning(s)	the fork
Comments on word	obsolete variants foku, hōku, bōku.
Analyzability	unanalyzable
Age	Early Modern Japanese [21] (1604–1867)
Lexical stratum	gairaigo
Year	1856
Register	General
Numeric frequency	13.5

Borrowed status	1. clearly borrowed
Source words	fork 'fork' English furca 'forked branch' Latin
Effect	Insertion
Salience	Present only since contact
Contact situation	Modernization and Westernization [21]