Portuguese-based creole languages used to distinguish locally born black people of African descent from those who had been brought from Africa as slaves. In time, however, this generic sense was lost, and the word "crioulo" or its derivatives (like "Creole" and its equivalents in other languages) became the name of several specific Upper Guinean communities and their languages: the Guinean people and their Kriol language, Cape Verdean people and their Kriolu language, all of which still today have very vigorous use, suppressing the importance of official standard Portuguese. The oldest Portuguese-based creole are the so-called "crioulos" of Upper Guinea, born around the Portuguese
Levett may have different spelling the likes of Levett, Levet, Leavett, Leavitt, Livett, Livitt and others. As to its origin, or rather we can talk about etimology of the word, there are a lot of possible variants. It may be derived from Anglo-Norman, and later French word. The derivation is from the Anglo-Norman French word "levet", which in its turn is originated from "lou" or "leu", in the meaning of young wolf. And another possible origin can be tracked from numerous Norman names of locations with such name as "Livet". There are also two possible English origins, either developed from personal