Where does “lèvre” come from?
lèvre (French) comes from Middle French lévre, from Old French levre, from Vulgar Latin labra, from Latin lābrum, from Latin lavābrum, from Latin lavō, from Proto-Italic lawaō, from Proto-Indo-European léwh₃eti — to wash.
lèvre (French): lip
Ancestry of “lèvre”, step by step
Words derived from “lèvre”