[wjnc]

Don’t tell me “fork” and “four” are related.

Did my homework: “Old English forca, force (denoting a farm implement), based on Latin furca ‘pitchfork, forked stick’; reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French furke (also from Latin furca ).”

Four in Latin is quattuor. Scared me there.

[cenamus]

However, Latin quattuor and english four are related through the PIE word kʷetwóres, as basically all words for 4 in indoeuropean languages are

[yard2010]

In my humble linguistics experience where there's smoke there's fire - many new languages words that sound similar may have and common abstract ancestor in one of the old proto languages

[shkkmo]

Yet 'consume' and 'consummate' have entirely separate origins so it isn't always a safe assumption.

[theodric]

I have some Dansk (which is Finnish, because logic is for Vulcans) flatware from the 1970s which instead of having forks has threeks. Still stabs food pretty well.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

No. A forked stick does not have 4 branches, nor does a fork in the road.

[hgomersall]

It definitely is: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0CmaLgxLDE0