Where does “lèv” come from?
lèv (Haitian Creole) comes from French lèvre, 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 — to wash.
lèv (Haitian Creole): lip
Ancestry of “lèv”, step by step