Tournefeuille

 ( Communes Of Haute-garonne ) 

Tournefeuille (; Languedocien: Tornafuèlha) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.

It is the second-largest suburb of the city of Toulouse, and is adjacent to it on the west side. It is a member of the Toulouse Métropole.

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History The Hôtel de Ville was built as a private residence and dates back to the reign of Louis XIII i.e. around 1630.

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Toponymy Tournefeuille, on the left bank of the Garonne, is located in the linguistic area of Gascon dialect of the eastern variant, of essentially oral expression linked to a rurality dependent on the domination of Toulouse of Languedocian culture.

The French toponym Tournefeuille is put in Occitan in graphic correspondence with: Torna Fuèlha in Languedoc, Torna Huelha in local Gascon, without semantic relevance. Tournefeuille would be rendered by Vira Fuèlha in Occitan.

Torna Auelha / Oelha means "bring back sheep".

The verbs tornar and virar, related to tourner and virer, do not have the same meanings in Occitan. tornar means to return, to turn over, to bring back, and tourner is virar.

As for the second element, it would be a phonetic confusion between the Gascon words huelha "leaf" and auelha/ oelha "sheep", homophones in case of elision of the initial "H" of the connected determiner.

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Geography The Touch flows northeast through the commune and crosses the town.

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Population The inhabitants of the commune are known as Tournefeuillais and Tournefeuillaises.

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Twin towns Tournefeuille is currently twinned with Graus in Spain.

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Sport Tournefeuille's football club is famous for being Manchester City's Gaël Clichy's youth team.

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See also

• Communes of the Haute-Garonne department

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External links

• Official site

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