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Duorp
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Low German
Alternative forms
Münsterländisch: nds Doarp rare
South-Westphalian: nds duårp scientific, Sauerländisch: nds Duarp
Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch: nds Dörp
Etymology
From nds gml dorp, from nds osx thorp.
Pronunciation
nds /du̯ɔɐ̯p/
Noun
n Düörper nds Westphalian including _ Münsterländisch
village
nds w:de:Karl Wagenfeld En Daugenicks Wilhelm Damwerth Kleine Bettlektüre för Lüde ut Westfaolen, de gärn plattdütsk küert before 1939 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!”