👉 Antefurca is a term used in linguistics and comparative morphology to describe a morphological feature that differs between two or more related words. It refers to a characteristic of a word that is unique to one part of speech, such as the presence or absence of certain consonants at the end of a word. For example, "fear" has antefurcaes in both its nominative and genitive forms, which are "furcated" and "furred," respectively