gadelyng

• gadeling, gadelynge, gadling, gadlyng, gadlynge
• gedelyng, gedelynge, gedlyng (West Midland, Yorkshire)

From Old English gædeling (“kinsman, fellow, companion in arms, comrade”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaduling, from Proto-Germanic *gadilingaz, *gadulingaz; by surface analysis, gade +‎ -ling.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡadəlinɡ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛdəlinɡ/ (Northern, West Midland)

gadelyng (plural gadelynges)

1. A comrade in arms; a fellow soldier.
2. A worthless person; someone of low birth or character}}
   • c. 1370s. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose. 937-8.

     These bowes two held Swete-Loking,
     That seemed lyk no gadeling.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• English: gadling
• Middle Scots: gedling
  • Scots: getlin, gaitlin, gytlin (influenced by get)

• “gadeling, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.