From [url=http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsid=1555&dekey=S0779800&gwp=8&cu rtab=1555_1:ba0a0]http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsid=1555&dekey=S0779800&gwp=8&cu rtab=1555_1[/url:ba0a0]
in regard to the definition of 'stoop':

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REGIONAL NOTE Originally brought to the Hudson Valley of New York by settlers from the Netherlands, a few items of Dutch vocabulary have survived there from colonial times until the present. Stoop, ?a small porch,? comes from Dutch stoep; this word is now in general use in the Northeast and is probably spreading. The word olicook, which appears to be dying out, means ?doughnut,? and comes from Dutch oliekoek?literally, ?oil cake.? And the Dutch word kill for a small running stream is used throughout New York State.
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Also, from [url=http://www.answers.com/topic/burg:ba0a0]http://www.answers.com/topic/burg[/url:ba0a0]

burg (b?rg)
n.

1. Informal. A city or town: ?There are no more opportunities for you in this burg? (Damon Runyon).
2. A fortified or walled town in early or medieval Europe.

[Probably from -burg in place names such as HARRISBURG, from Middle English burgh, town, from Old English burg. Sense 2, ultimately from Germanic *burgs, hill fort.]