The story
- Old French · derived fromgibelet“game bird stew”
- Middle English · inherited fromgiblets
- English todaygiblets
From Middle English giblets, from Old French gibelet (“game bird stew”), probably from gibier (“birds hunted for sport”).
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchgibelet all →
gibelotte
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.