A verb in the Gnomish Lexicon given as {fampa- >>} famfa- “maul”, an elaboration of G. famp “feeling, stroking” (GL/33).
Gnomish
mar
noun. Earth, ground, soil
mar(o)n
adjective. ripe
ôla mar
masculine name. Ôla Mar
bara dhair haithin
place name. Cottage of the Lost Play
famfa-
verb. to maul
A word in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “Earth, ground, soil”, apparently derived from the root ᴱ√mar- (GL/56). Tolkien also had G. Môr “the Earth”, so perhaps mar mainly meant “earth” in the more ordinary senses. For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I’d use later S. ceven for “earth”.