Siciliani - the origin of names in your family?

[quaquaraqua]

Another one from my family, one of my great great grandmothers' surnames from Palermo, is "Taravella". Any idea what its linguistic root might be?

Taravella sembrerebbe del palermitano, Taravelli, assolutamente rarissimo, parrebbe del cuneese, Taravello parrebbe avere un ceppo palermitano ed uno cuneese, dovrebbe derivare dall'etnico tarabulus (di Tripoli), traccia di questa cognominizzazione si ha in uno scritto del 1245, dove si legge: "...fratrem eius, Arnaudum Stephani de Taravello et uxorem eius,...".
integrazioni fornite da Giovanni Vezzelli
Taravella è cognome siciliano. Cfr. l'italiano dialettale 'taravèlla' = 'membro o altro oggetto storto o irregolare', calabrese settentrionale 'taravedda', antico provenzale 'taravela' = 'succhiello, trapano' (latino 'terebella', diminutivo di 'terebra', da cui l'italiano 'trivella'), piemontese 'taravela' = loquacità, persona loquace, calabrese 'taravieddu' = cicaleccio. G. Caracausi, II, 1601.

[Panormus]

My surname derives from the Latin word "bonus"

[Sikeliot]

dont know bout "tara" but vella is just vëlla which means brother (in albanian ofc)

The Arbereshe is not mixed into my Palermitan side.

[Sikeliot]

do you have any arbereshe ancestry at all?

A very minor amount.

[alfieb]

Another one from my family, one of my great great grandmothers' surnames from Palermo, is "Taravella". Any idea what its linguistic root might be?

I have a 4x-great grandmother with that surname. Palermo side.

[Sikeliot]

i find this interesting because to me you could pass more in albanian lands than greek

I'm a mixture of a lot of things, not just Sicilian. Sicilian is only 3/8 of my ethnicity. But I disagree, I don't think I look Albanian.

[Dun93]

Mine is Tataglia , it is thought to be of mafia origin

[alfieb]

I doubt Taravella has Albanian origin as it is not found in any of the Albanian towns in Palermo.

[Smitty]

The only two I know of in my family are Aliotta and Longo. Other than some dubious Internet explanations, I don't know where/what they're derived from.

[Sikeliot]

The only two I know of in my family are Aliotta and Longo. Other than some dubious Internet explanations, I don't know where/what they're derived from.

Longo is common throughout Sicily, I have seen it before.