Where does “תלא” come from?

תלא (Aramaic) comes from Proto-Semitic tall-, from Proto-Afroasiatic tVl- — hill.

תלא (Aramaic): hill; tell, mound, pile; ruins

Definitions

  1. hill; tell, mound, pile; ruins

Ancestry of “תלא”, step by step

תלא traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Semitic tall-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Semitictall-hill
2Proto-AfroasiatictVl-hill

via Akkadian 𒇯

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Akkadian𒇯—

Words derived from “תלא”

Every word from Proto-Afroasiatic tVl- →Every word from Proto-Semitic tall- →