Where does “levre” come from?
levre (Old French) comes from Vulgar Latin labra, from Latin lābrum, from Latin lavābrum, from Latin lavō, from Proto-Italic lawaō, from Proto-Indo-European léwh₃eti, from Proto-Indo-European lewh₃- — to wash.
Ancestry of “levre”, step by step
Words derived from “levre”