THORP
Thorp is a group of houses standing together in a country, a hamlet or a village.
Thorps were often created out of wood so that word stays in a straight connection to the process of cutting down trees and gathering logs. This word does not have any cognates outside European branches.
TREV- TREB-
Albanian: trevë
Breton: trev
Old Breton: treff
Middle Welsh: tref
Welsh: tref, tre
Polish: trzebić ("to cut down trees")
Croatian: trebiti ("to cut down trees")
Bosnian: trebiti ("to cut down trees")
Serbian: требити (trebiti) ("to cut down trees")
Slovenian: iztrebiti ("to cut down trees")
Old Irish: treb
Irish: treabh
Gaulish: Atrebates
TRAB- TRAV-
Words meaning: beam, rafter, roof
Latin: trabs
Galician: trabe, treu
Spanish: traba
English: trave
French: travée
Italian: trave
Old French: trave, tref
Old Occitan: trau
Old Portuguese: trave
Portuguese: trave
TROP-
Old English: þrop, þorp
German: -trop
Old French: trope
Middle French: trouppe
French: troupe
English: troop, troupe
Medieval Latin: troppus
Lithuanian: trobà ("farmhouse")
TOR- DOR-
Middle English: thorp
English: thorp (forming doublet with dorp)
Old Frisian: thorp, therp
North Frisian: torp, terp
Old Saxon: thorp
Old High German: thorph, thorf, thorp, dorf (Central German)
Old Norse: þorp
Icelandic: þorp
Faroese: torpur
Norwegian Bokmål: torp
Norwegian Nynorsk: torp
Old Swedish: þorp
Swedish: torp
Danish: torp
Middle Low German: dorp
Low German: Dörp, Dorp, Derp, Duorp, Duarp
West Frisian: doarp (forming doublet with terp)
Old Dutch: thorp, dorp
Middle Dutch: dorp
Dutch: dorp, drop
Afrikaans: dorp
Scots: dorp
English: dorp
Middle High German: dorf; dorp
Alemannic German: Dorf
Central Franconian: Dörp, Dorp, Dorf
German: Dorf
TER-
East Frisian: terp
West Frisian: terp
Dutch: terp
Saterland Frisian: Täärp
TRU-
Dalmatian: trua ("beam, rafter, roof")
German: Truppe
TAR- DAR-
Westrobothnian: tarp
Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍀 (þaurp)
Plautdietsch: Darp
DU-
Luxembourgish: Duerf
Article published on the 30th of October 2018.