the popular name of cartilage, Old English gristle "cartilage," related to grost "gristle," from Proto-West Germanic *gristl- (source also of Old Frisian and Middle Low German gristel, Old High German crostila, Middle High German gruschel), which is of obscure origin, perhaps from a non-IE substrate language.
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