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German Low German
- Münsterländisch: Doarp (rare)
- South-Westphalian: duårp (scientific), Sauerländisch: Duarp
- Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch: Dörp
Etymology
From Middle Low German dorp, from Old Saxon thorp.
Pronunciation
Noun
Duorp n (plural Düörper)
- (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!”