The story
- Old Norse · derived fromungr“young”
- Swedish · derived fromyngling“youngster”
- Danish · derived fromyngling
- Norwegian · derived fromyngling
- English todayYngling
From Norwegian yngling, Danish yngling, Swedish yngling (“youngster”); from Old Norse ungr (“young”) + -lingr (diminutive suffix, compare -ling), also a surname in Old Norse. Doublet of youngling.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.