The origin remains unexplained. Has been compared toOld Armenianտիղմ(tiłm).

τέλμᾰ• (télmă) n (genitiveτέλμᾰτος);third declension

1. standingwater,pond,marsh,swamp
2. (in theplural)lowlands subject toinundation,water meadows
3. mud used as amortar
4. space pointed withmortar, between thecourses ofmasonry

• ⇒ Translingual:Telmasaurus

• “τέλμα”, inLiddell & Scott (1940),A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τέλμα inBailly, Anatole (1935),Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010),Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series;10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN

τέλμα• (télma) n (pluralτέλματα)

1. swamp,quagmire,bog
2. (figuratively)impasse,predicament

• έλος n(élos)
• βάλτος m(váltos)

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