The story
- Old French · derived fromgaler“to have fun, to enjoy oneself”
- Old French · derived fromcalimafree“stew of various kinds of meats”
- French · derived fromgalimafrée
- English todaygallimaufry
From French galimafrée, from Old French calimafree (“stew of various kinds of meats”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from a combination of Old French galer (“to have fun, to enjoy oneself”) and Old Northern French (Picard) mafrer (“to eat gluttonously”).
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchgaler all →
Galvin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.