thorp
English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /θɔːp/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /θɔɹp/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)p
Noun
thorp (plural thorps)
- (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; […]
Alternative forms
- thorpe (obsolete)
Translations
hamlet, village
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See also
Middle English
Etymology
Inherited from Old English þorp.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θɔrp/, /θrɔp/, /θrɔːp/
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.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
- “thorp”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
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