different between hamlet vs thorp

English

Etymology

From Middle English hamlet, hamelet, a borrowing from Old French hamelet, diminutive of Old French hamel, in turn diminutive of Old French ham, of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (whence English home).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæm.l?t/
• Homophone: Hamlet

Noun

hamlet (plural hamlets)

1. A small village or a group of houses.

   Synonym: thorp

2. (Britain) A village that does not have its own church.
3. Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.

Hypernyms

• (small village): settlement

Translations

Anagrams

• Eltham, Lathem, Thelma, methal

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From ham (“skin”) +? let (“colour”).

Noun

hamlet m (definite singular hamleten, indefinite plural hamleter, definite plural hamletene)

1. skin colour, complexion

   Synonym: hudfarge

Further reading

• “hamlet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• hamlett

Pronunciation

Etymology

From ham (“skin”) +? let (“colour”).

Noun

hamlet m (definite singular hamleten, indefinite plural hamleter or hamletar, definite plural hamletene or hamletane)

1. skin colour, complexion

Further reading

• “hamlet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Alternative forms

• thorpe (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???p/

Noun

thorp (plural thorps)

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

   • Within a little thorp I staid.

Translations

See also

• Thorpe

Anagrams

• -troph, Porth

Middle English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Inherited from Old English þorp

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rp/, /?r?p/, /?r??p/

Noun

thorp (plural thorpes)

1. A small village or settlement.

Descendants

• English: thorp

References

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

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þorp.

Noun

thorp n

1. village

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: dorp
  • Dutch: dorp
    • Afrikaans: dorp
      • ? Sotho: toropo
      • ? Tswana: toropo
      • ? Venda: ?orobo
      • ? Xhosa: idolophu
    • ? English: dorp
    • ? Sranan Tongo: dorpu
  • Limburgish: dörp

Further reading

• “thorp”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þorp.

Noun

thorp n

1. village

Declension

Descendants

• 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