talpă.

Unknown. Related with regional Serbo-Croatian tȃlpa / tȃlpa (“plank”), Macedonian талпа (talpa, “plank”), dialectal Bulgarian та́лпа (tálpa, “thick or broad plank, board”), Hungarian talp (“sole”), dialectal Russian те́льпа (télʹpa, “sled or sledge or sleigh with two skids, or one without skids running only on boards”), тельпу́х (telʹpúx, “block or stump from a tree”). Also may be related to Friulian talpe (“paw”). talpinà, talpetà (“to stamp”), Valsugan talpa, talpón (“tree stump”), Venetan and Padovan talpón (“tree stump or rootstock”), and further to be compared to Alemannic German Talpe (“paw”), Silesian German Talpe (“hand”), Thuringian Talpe, Talpsche (“great hand”), talpen (“to walk clumsily; to grab clumsily”), talfern (“to touch with little dexterity”), Middle High German tâpe, talpe (“paw”), Alemannic German antalpen (“to touch with little dexterity”), antapen (“to paw, to grope”), Bavarian Tälpen (“rootstocks”). Could also be connected to German tappen, English tap, due to a connection to a body part. With such nativity in Germanic the Romanian, Hungarian, and Slavic terms however are frequently ascribed to a dark substrate, so a Gepidic or else East Germanic may be the source. The Slavic terms however are accordingly from Romanian.