Etymology

Garlic (Old English gārlēac) is a native Germanic word being composed of two elements: The first element gar means “spear” and refers to the pointed leaves. The second element -lic (appearing in full form in the word leek) has plenty of cognates in other Germanic languages which generally mean either leek or onion. In Eastern languages, cognates of leek have throughout adopted the meaning “onion”, and the name of garlic is, then, formed, by prefixing an adjective “white”. European example is Croatian bijeli luk and its Serbian counterpart beli luk [бели лук] “white leek”.
The German name of garlic Knoblauch stems from the verb klieb-, meaning “split” , (English cleave);
Independently, Slavonic names for garlic like Czech česnek, Slovenian česen, Polish czosnek, Ukrainian chasnyk [часник] and Russian chesnok [чеснок] have a semantic connection to splitting and partitioning: Czech část, Polish część and Russian chast......

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Title: Garlic In Serbian Cuisine, Tradition And Mythology
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