Tournefeuille

Tournefeuille (French pronunciation: [tuʁnəfœj]; 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.

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

Tournefeuille, on the left bank of the Garonne, is located in the linguistic area of Gascon Occitan 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 ['turnɔ (a)'weʎɔ] 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.