thorp

• thorpe (obsolete)

From Middle English thorp, throp, from Old English þorp, þrop (“farm, village”), from Proto-Germanic *þurpą, *þrepą (“village, farmstead, troop”), from Proto-Indo-European *trab-, *treb- (“dwelling, room”). Cognate with North Frisian torp, terp (“village, fallow”), Dutch dorp (“village”), German Dorf (“hamlet, village, town”), Danish torp (“village”), Swedish torp (“farm, cottage, croft”), Icelandic þorp (“village, farm”), Latin trabs (“beam, rafter, roof”), Lithuanian trobà (“farmhouse”), Welsh tref (“town”), Albanian trevë (“country, region, village”). Related to troop. Doublet of dorp.

thorp (plural thorps)

1. (archaic, now chiefly in placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.
   • Fairfax

     Within a little thorp I staid.

• -troph

• throp, þrop, þorp, throop, thrope, thorpt

Inherited from Old English þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą.

• IPA^(key): /θɔrp/, /θrɔp/, /θrɔːp/

thorp (plural thorpes)

1. A small village or settlement.

• English: thorp

• “thorp (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-12.

From Proto-Germanic *þurpą.

thorp n

1. village

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: dorp
  • Dutch: dorp

• “thorp”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *þurpą.

thorp n

1. village

• Middle Low German: dorp
  • → German: -trop
  • Low German: Dörp, Dorp, Derp (eastern or Prussian Low German), Duorp (Westphalian Low German: Münsterländisch), Duarp (Westphalian Low German: Sauerländisch), Doärp (Westphalian Low German: Paderbornisch; Plural: Döärper)
  • Plautdietsch: Darp
  • → West Frisian: doarp (forming doublet with terp)