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This rather pleasing etymology stood for a while but was discredited when R.M.W. Dixon failed to find an etymon in a Queensland language, despite a brave attempt to locate the origin in a putative Jagara word which was glossed as wandering white man.
One possibility is etymonym (pronounced ehTYM-o-nym), using the coined combining form etymo- (from the Greek etymon meaning the true meaning of a word, which derives from etymos meaning true or real).
In this case the presence of a high proportion of British regional dialect speakers amongst the convicts and settlers who emigrated or were transported to Australia argues incontrovertibly in favor of a dialect origin if a potential etymon can be shown to exist.
At first sight this might appear to be a British regional dialect word, but there is no possible etymon even remotely like it recorded in Wright or the OED .
If Yiddish is the source of gunsel, someone will have to produce an etymon that is phonologically more likely than gendzl or, if that is indeed its etymon, explain the irregular sound change.