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Namárie Ellanto,
what are your thoughts on talampio being a word for strawberry, from *talam, ground/floor, and pio, berry?
would you suggest a different etymology or spelling? (Such as talmapio)
thank you for your feedback, Calatúlo
talan is a “flat space, platform, floor”, coming from the root √TALAM “flat space”; the sense “ground” comes from earlier drafts of Elvish, and seems to have been discarded. Therefore I do not think this root fits the intended derivation.
A derivation with the same logic behind it was suggested before on Vinye Lambengolmor by a user named Verilme: cempio, from √KEM “soil, earth”, which I find more fitting.
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