The story
- Old English · inherited fromgārlēac“garlic”
- Middle English · inherited fromgarlek
- English todaygarlic
Inherited from Middle English garlek, garlik, from Old English gārlēac (“garlic”, literally “spear-leek”), from gār ("spear"; in reference to its sharp, tapering leaves) + lēac (“leek”). Cognate with Scots garlic (“garlic”), Faroese geirleykur (“garlic”), Icelandic geirlaukur (“garlic”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.