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The less romantic truth is that babble descends from the Middle English babelon and is probably of imitative origin, echoing the ba ba sounds typically made by infants in their repetitive chatter.
Gaak is often used for gagging, but gag itself was originally onomatopoetic, which raises the thorny issue of how much language was all imitative at one time.
It could be a hypocoristic or baby-talk form of hysterical , or it might be from the imitative word hiss ; or perhaps it is a variant of another dialect term, jesse , meaning a `severe scolding,' which is probably from a Biblical allusion.
And children's imitative words and the noises they make, the words they invent as they play with their vocal apparatus and explore the possibilities of the language.
The nightingale does not have a directly imitative name, although the final- gale is related to yell , which is undoubtedly echoic.