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Lost Omens: Legends says
A witch with Baba Yaga as their patron can choose an inanimate object as a familiar. If they do, they still can gain master abilities and some familiar abilities that don’t require movement. The object familiar has no Speeds and must select a Speed familiar ability before it can move, coming to life in a way appropriate to the chosen Speed and using the statistics of a normal familiar for that day.
To me, this implies that it should be possible to give a Land Speed to an Inanimate Familiar. The only thing that I can find in the list of Familiar Abilities that would grant this is kind of tortuous - you could make a case that Fast Movement adds 15' to whatever kind of movement, so granting it would give an Inanimate Familiar a Land Speed of 15'.
Should there be a "Land Speed" Familiar Ability? The other case where I could see someone wanting it would be with usually purely water-bound familiar, like a fish, shark, or dolphin.
For that matter, I'm kind of of the opinion that, in general, a familiar should one type of movement at 25' for free - birds, butterflies, bees could get a Fly Speed, fish a Swim Speed, etc. This would not apply to one of Baba Yaga's Inanimate Familiars, because the specific text would override the general.
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Familiars do get a speed for free, they get a Speed of 25 automatically (Or a swim speed if they're aquatic). This is overwritten by the Patron ability. There's no way to add a base Speed with familiar abilities, since they normally get a Speed of 25. Adding a base speed of 25 with a familiar ability isn't really useful, since you can just get a Fly speed of 25 which is just way better.
I wouldn't stop someone from taking a base speed with a familiar ability though, if they really wanted to.