The story
- Middle English · inherited fromgagelen“to cackle; cackle like a goose”
- English todaygaggle
From Middle English gagelen (“to cackle; cackle like a goose”). Compare Dutch gaggelen (“to cackle”), Icelandic gagl (“small goose; gosling”), Norwegian Nynorsk gagl (“wild goose”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.