gadling:

From Middle English gadling ?(“companion in arms; man, fellow; a person of low birth; rascal, scoundrel; bastard; base, lowborn”), from Old English geaduling, g?deling ?(“kinsman, fellow, companion in arms, comrade”), from Proto-Germanic *gadulingaz, *gadilingaz ?(“relative, kinsman”), equivalent to gad +? -ling. Related to Old English gāda ?(“comrade, companion”).