Morpheme
Carnival
Type
free base
Denotation
festival, literally meat alleviation
Etymology
Middle French carnaval; Italian carnevale, from carnelevare, from carne + levàre; Latin carnem levāmen, from carō and from levāre, from levis
Evidence
carnival, carnivaled, carnivalesque, carnivalic, carnivaling, carnivalistic, carnivalize, carnivalled, carnivallike, carnivalling, carnivals, noncarnival, precarnival
Notes
<l> need not double (but can), especially with inflectional suffixes
carnival and carnaval are doublets
