The story
- Norwegian Nynorsk · borrowed fromvingla“to flutter, stumble about, go hither and thither, go astray, dangle”
- English todaywingle
From a merger of wangle, and dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk vingla (“to flutter, stumble about, go hither and thither, go astray, dangle”), related to Norwegian Bokmål vingle (“to wobble”), Swedish vingla (“to wobble”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.