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Thorp is aMiddle English word for ahamlet or small village.
Etymology
editThe name can either come fromOld Norseþorp (alsothorp),[1] or fromOld English (Anglo-Saxon)þrop.[2] There are many place names in England with thesuffix "-thorp" or "-thorpe". Those of Old Norse origin are to be found inNorthumberland, County Durham,Yorkshire, Lincolnshire,Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, andSuffolk. Those of Anglo-Saxon origin are to be found in southern England fromWorcestershire toSurrey. Care must be taken to distinguish the two forms. Variations of the Anglo-Saxon suffix are "-throp", "-thrope", "-trop" and "-trip" (e.g.Adlestrop andSouthrope).[2]
Old English (Anglo-Saxon)þrop is cognate withLow-Saxontrup/trop/drup/drop as inHandrup orWaltrop,Frisianterp, Germantorp ordorf as inDüsseldorf, the 'Village of the river Düssel', andDutchdorp.[3]
It also appears in Lorraine place-names as-troff such asGrosbliederstroff (France) in front ofKleinblittersdorf (Germany). It sometimes occurs in Normandy as Torp(s) / Tourp(s) /-tourp or even-tour, for instance :le Torp-Mesnil,le Tourp,Clitourps orSaussetour (Manche,Sauxetorp end 12th century, likeSaustrup, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, formerSaxtorppe andSaxtorf, formerSaxtorpe 1538 idem, andSaxthorpe in Norfolk, England), all from Old Norse[4] or Old English.
Use
edit"Thorp" as a word appears in somerole-playing games, where it is used to denote the smallest form of permanent collective habitation in the game world. Thorps inDungeons and Dragons are defined as having between 20–80 inhabitants, whilePathfinder defines them as having 20 or fewer.[5] Hamlets are the next most populous, housing 81–400 or 21–60 people in the respective games.
References
edit- ^Taggart, Caroline (8 June 2011).The Book of English Place Names: How Our Towns and Villages Got Their Names. Ebury Publishing. p. 182.ISBN 978-1-4090-3498-8.
- ^abReaney, P. H. (1980).The Origin of English Place-Names. Routledge and Kegan Paul. pp. 172–174.
- ^"thorp." In Oxford Dictionary of English, edited by Stevenson, Angus. : Oxford University Press, 2010.http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199571123.001.0001/m_en_gb0860380ISBN 978-0-19-957112-3
- ^Jean Renaud,Vikings et noms de lieux de Normandie. Dictionnaire des toponymes d'origine scandinave en Normandie, éditions OREP, 2009
- ^"Settlements – d20PFSRD".www.d20pfsrd.com.
See also
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- Dorf (disambiguation)
- Dorp (disambiguation)
- Thorpe (disambiguation)
- Thrupp (disambiguation)
- Thwaite (placename element), a similarly archaic placename element
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