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    Could it be related to Levallois? there's a basketball team in Paris named that

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank Gallagher View Post
    Could it be related to Levallois? there's a basketball team in Paris named that
    No LMAO
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wadaad View Post
    there is a city in Quebec: Laval
    This is not Laval : this does not come from an city :v
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    There is a Hungarian word 'levél' which means either letter or leaf

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sekkmer View Post
    There is a Hungarian word 'levél' which means either letter or leaf
    Great, but i don't have Hungarian origin
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    Ok

    "Level: Especially carried in the Pas-de-Calais, seems a nickname related to the calf (see Leveau), the word having pronounced and written "vel, veel" in old French."
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    maybe it's the dialectal form of something like "Le Vieil" (the elder, the old) ?

    for example in Provençal is "Viehl"
    in Catalan is "Vell"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mens-Sarda View Post
    maybe it's the dialectal form of something like "Le Vieil" (the elder, the old) ?

    for example in Provençal is "Viehl"
    in Catalan is "Vell"
    Hum. I don't think.

    According a site: ""Level: Especially carried in the Pas-de-Calais, seems a nickname related to the calf (see Leveau), the word having pronounced and written "vel, veel" in old French.""

    So, this is just "Leveau" but with a old writing from old French.
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    I think you are right, I've found this about the etymology of "veau"

    veal (n.) late 14c., "calf meat as food," from Anglo-French vel, Old French veel "a calf" (12c., Modern French veau), earlier vedel, from Latin vitellus "a little calf," diminutive of vitulus "calf," perhaps originally "yearling," if related, as some think, to Sanskrit vatsah "calf," literally "yearling;" Gothic wiþrus, Old English weðer (see wether; also see veteran).




    A derivative of Latin "vitellus" same as the Italian "vitello", Sardinian "bitellu"
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