Torp
/tɔːp/noun
A small farmstead or cottage, especially in Scandinavia.
Did you know?Swedish torp often referred to small tenant holdings, while the related Old English word thorp survives in English place-names such as Scunthorpe and Cleethorpes.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*treb-
“A dwelling or settlement; the proposed ancestral root of later Germanic settlement words.”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*þurpą
“A village, settlement, or group of houses.”
Old Norse
Old Norse
þorp
“A small village or settlement.”
Old English
Old English
þorp
“A secondary settlement, hamlet, or small village.”
Medieval Scandinavian
Swedish
torp
“A small farmstead or rural holding.”
Modern English
English
torp
“A Scandinavian small farmstead or cottage, chiefly used as a loanword.”