-trop

See also: trop, tròp, trop., trop-, and -trop-

German

Alternative forms
  • -trup, -drup

Etymology

With metathesis in the weakened ultima from Middle Low German dorp (“village”), from Old Saxon thorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą. While Low German placenames in -dorp were generally standardized with the High German equivalent -dorf, those with the less transparent variant -trop, -trup often remained unchanged.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tʁɔp/
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Suffix

-trop

  1. Placename suffix found chiefly in north-western Germany

Derived terms
  • Bentrop
  • Bottrop
  • Castrop
  • Echtrop
  • Finnentrop
  • Frintrop
  • Gartrop
  • Hattrop
  • Heintrop
  • Höntrop
  • Hultrop
  • Katrop
  • Lanstrop
  • Latrop
  • Lochtrop
  • Nierentrop
  • Oeventrop
  • Ostentrop
  • Selkentrop
  • Sögtrop
  • Stentrop
  • Suttrop
  • Uentrop
  • Waltrop
  • Werntrop
  • Wiltrop
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