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Tolma/dolma
The claim of a cook, reported by a newsletter, is not a reliable source for the etymology of a word, especially a nationalist newsletter. Cookbooks are also not reliable sources for etymology. The 'dolmak' etymology is straightforward and supported by multiple reliable sources. There appear to be only a handful of Urartian derivations in Armenian, and toli is not one of them. (John A. C. Greppin; I. M. Diakonoff, "Some Effects of the Hurro-Urartian People and Their Languages upon the Earliest Armenians", Journal of the American Oriental Society 111:4:720-730, October 1991) --Macrakis (talk) 14:41, 21 July 2011 (UTC)