thorp
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /θɔːp/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /θɔɹp/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)p
Noun edit
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 edit
- thorpe (obsolete)
Translations edit
hamlet, village
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See also edit
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old English þorp.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
thorp (plural thorpes)
- A small village or settlement.
Descendants edit
- English: thorp
References edit
- “thorp, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-12.
Old Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *þorp.
Noun edit
thorp n
Inflection edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants edit
- Middle Dutch: dorp
Further reading edit
- “thorp”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old Saxon edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *þorp.
Noun edit
thorp n
Declension edit
Declension of thorp (neuter a-stem)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | thorp | thorp |
accusative | thorp | thorp |
genitive | thorpes | thorpō |
dative | thorpe | thorpun |
instrumental | — | — |