[eqreqeq]

>>In France, the verb 'work' is travailler. Traditionally this meant literally to toil, a chore, an obligation.

"travailler" comes from Latin, in spanish the same word is "trabajar", notice the resemblance. It literally means "to work" in english. Just saying this because I don't really buy it that "travailler" in French means "to toil".

[Fargren]

Travail (like trabajo) means labor, effort. It's different from "empoi" ("empleo" in español), which has a bigger relation with being useful, and is also less commonly used.