thorp

Meaning

A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.

Concepts

thorp

little village

thorpe

Pronounced as (IPA)

/θɔːp/

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.