Gale
mid 16th century: perhaps related to Old Norse galinn ‘mad, frantic’.
wiktionary
From Middle English galen, from Old English galan(“to sing, enchant, call, cry, scream; sing charms, practice incantation”), from Proto-Germanic *galaną(“to roop, sing, charm”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel-(“to shout, scream, charm away”). Cognate with Danish gale(“to crow”), Swedish gala(“to crow”), Icelandic gala(“to sing, chant, crow”), Dutch galm(“echo, sound, noise”). Related to yell.
From Middle English gale(“a wind, breeze”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Icelandic gola(“a breeze”), Danish gal(“furious, mad”), [1] both from Old Norse gala(“to sing”), and thus ultimately related to the above word (etymology 1).
From Middle English gaile, gawl, gawwyl, gaȝel, gagel, from Old English gagel, gagelle, gagille, gagolle(“gale; sweet gale”), from Proto-Germanic *gagulaz(“gale; sweet-willow”). Cognate with Scots gaul, gall(“bog-myrtle”), Dutch gagel(“wild mytle”), German Gagel(“mytle-bush”), Icelandic gaglviður(“sweet-gale; myrtle”).
From Middle English gavel(“rent; tribute”), from Old English gafol.
etymonline
gale (n.)
"strong wind," especially at sea, 1540s, from gaile "wind," origin uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse gol "breeze," or Old Danish gal "bad, furious" (often used of weather), which are related to Old Norse galinn "furious, mad, frantic; enchanted, bewitched," from gala "to sing, chant," the wind so called from its raging or on the notion of being raised by spells (but OED finds reason to doubt this). Or perhaps it is named for the sound, from Old English galan "to sing," or giellan "to yell." The Old Norse and Old English words all are from the source of yell (v.). In nautical use, between a stiff breeze and a storm; in technical meteorological use, a wind between 32 and 63 miles per hour.
