Dorathorpe

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Old Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compound of dora (“doors”) +‎ thorpe (“new construction”), where the former refer to the nearby strait in lake Vidöstern. First attested in 1393.[1]

Proper noun[edit]

Dorathorpe

  1. A parish of Sunnerbo hundred, Finnveden; later in Ljungby municipality, Kronoberg county, Sweden; today's Dörarp.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Svenskt ortnamnslexikon (2016), page 62, by Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore and Uppsala University Department of Scandinavian Languages
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