thorp

See also: Thorp and þorp

English

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)

(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.

a hamlet, a village

Bavarian: Duaf n
Central Franconian: Dörp
Danish: torp n
Dutch: dorp (nl) n
Faroese: torpur m
French: hameau (fr) m, village (fr) m
German: Dorf (de) n
Alemannic German: Toorf
Icelandic: þorp (is) n
Italian: villaggio (it) m
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: doarp (nds) n

German Low German: Dörp (nds) n, Duorp (nds) n

Norwegian:
Bokmål: torp n

Nynorsk: torp n
Old Norse: þorp n
Russian: селе́ние (ru) n (selénije), дереву́шка (ru) f (derevúška), ху́тор (ru) m (xútor)
Saterland Frisian: Täärp n
Spanish: aldea (es) f
West Frisian: doarp (fy) n

From Proto-Germanic *þurpą. Cognates include Old High German dorf (German Dorf), Old Norse þorp, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍀 (þaurp), Latin turba (“crowd, mob”), Ancient Greek τύρβη (túrbē, “tumult, disorder, turmoil”).

thorp n

Declension of thorp (neuter a-stem)

Middle Low German: dorp
- → German: -trop
- Low German: Dörp, Derp
- Plautdietsch: Darp
- West Frisian: doarp (forming doublet with terp)

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