Duorp

German Low German

Alternative forms

• Münsterländisch: Doarp (rare)
• South-Westphalian: duårp (scientific), Sauerländisch: Duarp
• Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch: Dörp

Etymology

From Middle Low German dorp, from Old Saxon thorp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du̯ɔɐ̯p/

Noun

Duorp n (plural Düörper)

1. (Westphalian, including Münsterland) village
   • before 1939, Karl Wagenfeld, “En Daugenicks”, in Wilhelm Damwerth, editor, Kleine Bettlektüre för Lüde ut Westfaolen, de gärn plattdütsk küert, published 1981:

     Wann de Lüh in’t Duorp auk säggen: «Wat döht de Liesken Dreiers doch met ’n Rüen? De hät jä knapp för sick un iähren Jungen wat!» Liesken gaff iähr ’t Kassement: «Ji brukt ’n jä nich to foern!»

     Though the people in the village used to say: “What does Lizzy Dreiers do with a dog? She has barely enough for herself and her boy!”, Lizzy would chase them off: “You don’t have to feed him, do you!”