Three consonants carry one direction: up. Pour them into a verb mould and you rise or you lift; pour them into a noun mould and you get the ascent, the staircase, the leaf reaching for light, the lift that carries you up. The same letters even mean "to cost" (the price goes up) and "excellent" (a cut above). And one of these words may be the one you are living: עֲלִיָּה, aliyah, the going-up to Israel. None of the words below are memorized separately. They are the same three letters pointing the same way. Every word here is verified against pealim, niqqud included.
The same root runs through the verb system. Each binyan is a voice: it bends the one idea into active, passive, causative or reciprocal. Tap to hear.
This is a ל"ה (final-heh) root, so the infinitives end in -ot rather than the textbook -o. The whole family turns on one contrast: pa'al לַעֲלוֹת is intransitive (I go up), while the causative hif'il לְהַעֲלוֹת makes something else go up (I raise it, I upload it). The passive partners nif'al, pu'al and huf'al exist in the system but are not the everyday lexicalized forms for this root.
Same root letters, different noun moulds (mishkalim). The mould tells you the function: who does it, the act of doing it, or the thing produced.
Strip the prefixes, suffixes and vowels. Three consonants remain, and the meaning lives there.