Thread:GreenMoriyama/@comment-28254399-20171020051208

I've posited that Taliyah's name comes from Proto-Semitic ṭa`lay-at, from `ṭalay "lamb, young ram" + feminine ending -at. Because you always supportively advised me on how to add etymology, here I tried to explain to the best of my ability how:

Proto-Semitic feminine ending -at often becomes /a:/ in Hebrew (spelt -ah) in Hebrew (Arabic tawrat vs. Hebrew torah, both from ancestral form *tawrawat). So we have ṭa'lay-ah

In Samaritan Hebrew dialect,  stressed ay- can become /i:/, then we'll have ṭa'liy-ah. Compare `talay > `taleh "young ram".

All in all, Ṭa`liyah is a dialectal result of ṭa`lay-at; through regular sound changes. 