Carville
Carville is originally a Normandy place name, which is a toponymic compound of Old French -ville "farm" (see villain, villein) and the Old Norse and Old Danish personal name Kári[1][2][3][4]. It may refer to:
People
- Edward P. Carville, Governor and a Senator from Nevada
- James Carville, political pundit, advisor to president Bill Clinton
Places
- Carville, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
- Carville-la-Folletière, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France
- Carville-Pot-de-Fer, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France
- Carville, Yorkshire, England
- Carville, Louisiana, U.S
- Carville, San Francisco, an historic neighborhood in the Sunset District of San Francisco, California
- Carville, a neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska
See also
References
- ^ Jean Adigard des Gautries, Les noms de personnes scandinaves en Normandie de 911 à 1066, Lund, 1954, p. 116.
- ^ François de Beaurepaire, Les noms de communes et anciennes paroisses de l’Eure, Picard, Paris, 1981, p. 84.
- ^ Kerstin Schlyter, « Les Noms des Scandinaves en Normandie », in Onomastique et langues en contact, Actes du colloque de Strasbourg (1991), Association bourguignonne de dialectologie et d'onomastique, 1992, p. 241b.
- ^ Ernest Nègre, Toponymie Générale de la France, Droz, Genève, t. II, 1991, p. 1012, § 18229.
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