The story
- Old Norse · derived fromgulr“yellow, pale”
- Middle English · derived fromgole
- English todaygullible
Origin uncertain. Either from gull (“to dupe, trick, fool”) + -ible; or alternatively from Middle English gole, goll, gol (“an unfledged bird, silly fellow”), perhaps from Old Norse gulr (“yellow, pale”), from the hue of its down.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishgole all →
gull
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.