The ancient city of Telmessos in the south of Turkey is likely to be in fact Telmeti, a Kartvelian toponym located among other Kartvelian-sounding regions like Patara, Tsibura or Bargulia. The applied formula is the same as in case of Tartessos:
-os=-i; -ss=t
In search for the root telmi we find the word telmuzi in the dictionary of Chubinashvili, meaning curd, raw cheese (-uzi is a suffix). This finding remains doubtful until...
...until we have a deep look at the toponym of Dalmatia.
1. Dalmatia = Delmatia, that's another known way of spelling the name of the country.
2. Delmatia = Delmati. The added -a may have various explanations, from a toponymic ending to definite article like in Basque language.
3. Delmati = Delmeti. According to Etymological Dictionary of Klimov, Kartvelian toponymc ending '-eti' corresponds to Laz ending '-ati'. So, we end up with Delmeti - 'land of delmi (delami)'.
4. დელამი [delami] is raw cheese, curd (Rayfield), which leads us to a conclusion that...
5. Delmeti = Telmeti. Both toponyms (one in Turkey, another on Adriatic coast) bear the Kartvelian root meaning curd. Dalmatia (modern Croatia) is famous for its raw cheese too, which is called here Kordun (compare to 'curd').
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