Origin: Germanic Old English prefix
Forked has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
simple past tense and past participle of fork
resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches
"the biramous appendages of an arthropod"
"long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"
"a forked river"
"a forked tail"
"forked lightning"
"horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"
That splits into two or more directions, or parts.