The story
- Old English · inherited from*cymeling
- Middle English · inherited fromcomeling
- English todaycomeling
From Middle English comeling, comlynge, cumeling, cumlyng, from Old English *cymeling, equivalent to come + -ling. Cognate with Old High German chomeling, chumelinc (“a comeling”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.