An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Gurgel

by Friedrich Kluge

Gurgel, feminine, ‘gullet, throat,’ from Middle High German gurgel, Old High German gurgula, feminine; a remarkably early loan-word (compare Körper) from Latin gurgulio, which supplanted a genuine Teutonic word primitively allied to it — Old High German quërchala, quërcha, ‘gullet,’ allied to Old Icelandic kverk, ‘gullet.’