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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

English

Pronunciation

• (Geordie) IPA^(key): /ð??/

Adverb

thor (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) there
2. (Tyneside) they're (they are)

Pronoun

thor (possessive determiner, possessive pronoun thors)

1. (Tyneside) their

References

• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[1]
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]

Anagrams

• Roth, hotr, orth-, thro, thro'

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [h???]

Noun

thor m

1. Lenited form of tor.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r/

Verb

thor

1. Aspirate mutation of tor.

Mutation