-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