Possible Origin of the word 'Italy'

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If we take the general form for Aryan used amongst the early western and southern  IEs to be of the form: 
   H e [l/r ]       where H represents the H sound as in Harold ( often dropped )
                                 e is a front vowl
                                 [i/r] represents a sound between a modern l and r . You hear it in the
                                 Chinese 'flied lice' and Japanese 'pranes frying'.

                                  CF Helenes, Erin, Iran, Armenia illyrium

This CVC root is often followed by a suffix meaning the people or of the people but in the LOCAL IE dialect. So that for the italic people, as a nation as opposed to a tribe, we could have:

                              HI[l/r] + talis
                              meaning Aryan of such a kind = belonging to the Aryan peoples.

Now as in general the H will be dropped but more importantly if the [l/r] is absorbed by the I vowl or more likely the t, we have:

                               Italis from which the later Latins would form Italia the area, and Itali orum the people