τηλία

• σηλία (sēlía)

A technical expression in -ία (-ía), like σχεδία (skhedía), κλισία (klisía) and ἑστία (hestía). In the sense of "hoop of a sieve", this word and σηλία (sēlía) are often connected with σήθω (sḗthō, “to sieve”), but the derivation is unclear. In the meaning "table, board", the connection with Latin tellus (“earth”) and Sanskrit तल (tala, “bottom, floor”) is given by Pokorny.

Beekes claims that this cannot be upheld as Greek would have a lengthened grade formation, and further that for such a technical word, Pre-Greek origin is likely. Beekes further claims that the variation τ/σ is typical for Pre-Greek words, and that this word must originate there.

τηλῐ́ᾱ • (tēlĭ́ā) f (genitive τηλῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. board or table with a raised rim or edge
2. table or stage whereon cocks and quails where set to fight
3. chimney board, trapdoor
4. hoop of a sieve

• “τηλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τηλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τηλία in Bailly, 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