garland

garland · noun, verb¹

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*wīraz
2. Frankish · derived from*wierōn“to adorn, bedeck”
3. Frankish · derived from*wierlōn
4. Old French · derived fromgarlande
5. Middle English · inherited fromgarland
6. English todaygarland

From Middle English garland, garlaunde, gerland, from Old French garlande, garlaunde, gerlande, guerlande (compare French guirlande), from Frankish *wierlōn, *wieralōn, a frequentative form of Frankish *wierōn (“to adorn, bedeck”), from *wiera (“a gold thread”), from or related to Proto-Germanic *wīraz. Akin to Old High German wieren (“to adorn”), Old High German wiara (“gold thread”). More at wire.

Garland · proper noun²

English surname, from the noun garland. Also derived from Garland in Devon, from an ancestor of the noun gore (“triangular piece of land”) + land.

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