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Redruth ( , (コーンウォール語:Resrudh)) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The population of Redruth was 14,018 at the 2011 census.〔Office for National Statistics, Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics, Area: Redruth parish〕 In the same year the population of the Camborne-Redruth urban area, which also includes Carn Brea, Illogan and several satellite villages, stood at 55,400〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=31822 )〕 making it the largest conurbation in Cornwall. Redruth lies approximately at the junction of the A393 and A3047 roads, on the route of the old London to Land's End trunk road (now the A30), and is approximately west of Truro, east of St Ives, north east of Penzance and north west of Falmouth. Camborne and Redruth together form the largest urban area in Cornwall and before local government reorganisation were an urban district. ==Toponymy== The name Redruth (pronounced 'Red-rooth') derives from its Cornish name, ''Rhyd-ruth''. ''Rhyd'' an older form of 'Res', which is a Cornish equivalent to a ford (across a river), a common Celtic word : Old Cornish ''rid''; Welsh ''rhyd'' (Old Welsh ''rit''); Old Breton ''rit'' or ''ret'', Gaulish ''ritu-'', all from Indo-European '' *prtus'' derived word in ''-tu'' from the root *per « to cross, to go through »; Proto-Germanic '' *furdúz'' (English ford, German ''Furt''); Latin ''portus'', all related to the Celtic word.〔Xavier Delamarre, ''Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise'', éditions errance 2003, p. 258.〕 It is the ''-ruth'' (and not the ''Red-'' part of the name) which means the colour red.〔Redruth & its people - Michael Tangye - ISBN 0-9501872-1-6〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Redruth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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