Teutonic Termi na i ions. 



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1 >. Thorp. A name for a village, but originally signifying' an 

 assembly of men. (Compare the Latin turba and the German 

 dor/.) We meet with this word in Wiltshire in the com- 

 pounds Wkstrop ( =11 'est-tJwrp) andEsTROP ( =East-thorp) . 

 Leo (Anglo-Saxon Names of Places, p. 49) says "The an* 

 tiquity of the word thorp is supported; not only by the fact 

 of its being common to both Latin and German, but in that 

 it is found in almost all European dialects — torf signifies in 

 Welsh a crowd, a multitude, a troop ; and tearbh (olim turbh) 

 in Gaelic and Erse means a tribe, a family, a farmers' village. 

 Torppa, also in Finnish, signifies a village. The French 

 troupe, troupeau, are related, whether such an affinity is 

 brought about by the Latin turba, or by the Celtic torf, or 

 truhk" He adds, "Whilst' ham suggests the internal and 

 mutual relationship of inhabitants of districts — tun, ham, 

 burh, their external isolation and stability — thorp conveys the 

 idea of their social intercommunion.'" 



Wurik, Wyrth. This is the Anglo-Saxon wurft or weor^S ( = a 

 homestead) and forms the termination worth, as in Tid- worth, 

 Chel-worth, and a few other names. It has much the same 

 meaning as the Low German worthe, a protected enclosed 

 homestead. It is sometimes found as weor^ig ( = W orthy) 

 as in Ham-worthy, in Dorset. Thus in the charters Tarn- 

 worth is spelt sometimes Tamo-worft and at others Tamo- 

 worftig. In the laws of King Ine, § 40, " Ceorles 

 weorSig " is rendered in the old Latin version " Rustiei 

 curtillum " ( = ceorFs close) . Rocquefort defines it u J ardin 

 qui est ordinairement enferme de murailles, de haies, ou de 

 fosses." See Anc. Laws and Inst., I., 127 ; and Glossary, 

 sub voce WeorSig. The word occurs in its simple form as 

 the name of a hundred now usually termed High-worth, but 

 which is called in the Exon Domesday and Hundred Rolls 

 "Worde and Worth. Wilts Domesd., 164. 

 44. Thus far then concerning what is usually the second portion 



of Anglo-Saxon names of places. There are a few others, whose 



meaning is well understood ; these will be explained in a supplemen- 



