Guess origin of my surname

[Enflamme]

Level :laugh:

[Mortimer]

Is Level your surname? I dont quiete get it, Level sounds jewish to me like Levin

[Enflamme]

Is Level your surname? I dont quiete get it, Level sounds jewish to me like Levin

Not Jewish.

[Ülev]

that was Englishman... Level - Le well - Le vel - Level

or frenchised "polonised prussian", like this nice guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Lelewel

[Egyptian]

Egyptian ..

get back to your motherland

[Enflamme]

that was Englishman... Level - Le well - Le vel - Level

or frenchised "polonised prussian", like this nice guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Lelewel

No more. ;)

[Enflamme]

Egyptian ..

get back to your motherland

With you, my future wife!

[Enflamme]

Drump

[Enflamme]

Trump :laugh:

[Wadaad]

there is a city in Quebec: Laval

[Ryujin]

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

[Enflamme]

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

No LMAO :D

[Enflamme]

there is a city in Quebec: Laval

This is not Laval : this does not come from an city :v

[Sekkmer]

There is a Hungarian word 'levél' which means either letter or leaf :D

[Enflamme]

There is a Hungarian word 'levél' which means either letter or leaf :D

Great, but i don't have Hungarian origin :p

[Enflamme]

Ok :D

"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."

[Enflamme]

:D

[Mens-Sarda]

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"

[Enflamme]

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.

[Mens-Sarda]

I think you are right, I've found this about the etymology of "veau"

veal (n.) (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=veal&allowed_in_frame=0) http://www.etymonline.com/graphics/dictionary.gif (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=veal)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 (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=wether&allowed_in_frame=0); also see veteran (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=veteran&allowed_in_frame=0)).




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

[Enflamme]

I think you are right, I've found this about the etymology of "veau"

veal (n.) (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=veal&allowed_in_frame=0) http://www.etymonline.com/graphics/dictionary.gif (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=veal)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 (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=wether&allowed_in_frame=0); also see veteran (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=veteran&allowed_in_frame=0)).




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

"Bitellu" :D This is funny (or not)... a guy with this last name could be mocked in France because one pronounces "dick" by "bite" (in a popular way).

But, thanks for these informations :)

[Mens-Sarda]

"Bitellu" :D This is funny (or not)... a guy with this last name could be mocked in France because one pronounces "dick" by "bite" (in a popular way).

But, thanks for these informations :)


we have many surnames about animals in Sardinia, but "Bitellu" is missing :D, or at least I've never met someone

[Iloko]

Sounds related to the surname 'Duval'.