Southern Italian: from a short form of the personal name
Elia.French: occupational name for someone who tied
up vines, from French liat, past participle of lier ‘to
tie’.Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads,
so named from the definite singular form of Li 4. kh, IGI:
mostly Italian.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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