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We begin with 2 fussbudget cautions. This is NOT genealogy. This may be the origin of Avril Lavigne’s name. This is the origin of the French family name Lavigne as it MAY have occurred with SOME families named Lavigne. It might be valid for Avril’s family. It might NOT be. French onomatology is a complex study. There are few certainties and masses of exceptions. Caution # 2: Some dorky dipstick on the net has said that my site claims Avril Lavigne is Jewish! It does NOT claim that at all. If the bozo who said that could read English, they would see that, below, I give several origins of the surname Lavigne and one of them is the quite legitimate, honorable and interesting source in a common Hebrew word. While there is nothing whatsoever wrong with a Jewish origin of the name Lavigne, 90% of people named Lavigne are not Jewish. The origin of last names is very complex and all of us on earth stem from much hybridized seed. So do our surnames. Thus it behooves us to treat all people on earth as we ourselves might like to be treated. In others words, this site promotes tolerance and racial harmony. Nothing else. Please keep that in mind. And read this word study with care.
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The Meaning of the French Surname Lavigne There are two common origins of the French surname Lavigne. La vigne is the French word for ‘vineyard,’ land where grape vines are planted. The word vigne appears in French by 1120 CE. It derives from Latin vinea, the word that Cicero, Horace, Vergil, and Plautus all used for vineyard. The Roman poet Horace was particularly fond of the word and no doubt of what vineyards produced.
Decadent ancients loll about the palace sipping wine and listening to poetry being read from a scroll. Brad Pitt is not seen. Brad’s out on the terrace practicing how to act, after failing to do so in the turkey film “Troy.” Vinea is itself from Latin vinum ‘wine.’ But our English word wine does not derive from the Latin vinum, as some will say. English wine and Latin vinum and Greek οîνος (oinos) are cognates, literally words ‘born together’ but technically the three words descend separately from the same Indo-European root. Indo-European is the ancient, unwritten language that is the mother of hundreds of modern languages. From the Greek word for wine, English made the fancy term for the study of wine and wine-making, oenology.
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