thorp

From Middle English thorp, throp, from Old English þorp, þrop (“farm, village”), from Proto-West Germanic *þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą, *þrepą (“village, farmstead, troop”), from Proto-Indo-European *trab-, *treb- (“dwelling, room”). Doublet of dorf and dorp, and possibly also of troop and troupe.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /θɔːp/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /θɔɹp/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)p

thorp (plural thorps)

1. (archaic, now chiefly in placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.
   • 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:

     Within a little thorp I staid.

   • 1870, Alfred Tennyson, “The Victim”, in The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 193:

     A plague upon the people fell, / A famine after laid them low, / Then thorpe and byre arose in fire, / For on them brake the sudden foe; […]

• thorpe (obsolete)

• Thorpe

• -troph, Porth

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

Inherited from Old English þorp.

• 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 12 September 2018.

From Proto-West Germanic *þorp.

thorp n

1. village

• Middle Dutch: dorp
  • Dutch: dorp
    • Afrikaans: dorp
      • → Fanagalo: dorop
      • → Sotho: toropo
      • → Tswana: toropo
      • → Venda: ḓorobo
      • → Xhosa: idolophu
      • → Zulu: idolobha
    • Negerhollands: dorp
    • → English: dorp
    • → Papiamentu: dorp
    • → Sranan Tongo: dorpu
  • Limburgish: dörp
  • → Middle Scots: dorp, drop
    • Scots: dorp

• “thorp”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *þorp.

thorp n

1. village

• Middle Low German: dorp
  • German Low German:
    • Low Prussian: Dörp, Dorp, Derp
    • Westphalian:
      • Münsterland: Duorp
      • Paderborn: Doärp
      • Sauerland: Duarp
  • Plautdietsch: Darp
  • → German: -trop
  • → West Frisian: doarp