Etymology

dorp

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Today it means: A village or small town; a town considered provincial. Full definition →

Dutch dorp ← Middle Dutch dorp ← Old Dutch thorp
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*treb-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trab-
  3. Proto-Germanic*þurpą
  4. Proto-West Germanic*þorp
  5. Old Dutchthorp
  6. Middle Dutchdorp
  7. Dutchdorp
  8. English todaydorp

Borrowed from Dutch dorp, which see for more. Doublet of dorf and thorp, and possibly also of troop and troupe.

Words from the same roots

Dutchdorp all →

Dorpian

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.