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

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

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

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.

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

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