carnival
‘festival’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. carnoval, carnevall, carnaval < F. carnaval < Ital. carnevale ‘shrove tuesday’ < Mila. carnelevale, O.Pi. carnelevare ‘to remove meat' < Lat. caro ‘flesh’ + levare ‘lighten, raise, remove’ < uhvl < legwh < Tamil el