Étymologie : 

* Eilert Ekwall : 

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* Rivet & Smith : 

SOURCE

- Itinéraire d'Antonin, 469₅ (Iter II) : RUTUNIO.

DERIVATION

" Ekwall ERN 345 and Jackson in Britannia, I (1970), 79, indicate a probable base in a British word derived from Indo-European *reu- 'to moveswiftly' (Latin ruo, Old Irish ruathar, Welsh rhuthr 'rush, attack', English rush ?, etc.). This is then a classic case of a settlement-name based on the name of a river, which would have been British *Rutuna (for the form, compare Ituna) > Roden; hence, with the derivational suffix *-io-, British *Rutunion for the settlement.

Names in Rut- are frequent in Continental sources, especially personal names; see Holder II. 1252-57, Ellis Evans GPN 466-67. The Ruteni people of Gallia Narbonensis had a capital at Segodunum, known in the fourth century as Civitas Rutenorum; this, as Rutenos > Rodez (Aveyron, France). These people were perhaps 'swift ones'."

IDENTIFICATION. 

The Roman settlement or posting-station which, though ill-attested archeologically, must have existed near where the Roman road from Whitchurch to Wroxeter (Margary 6a) crossed the river Roden; so Harcourt Mill, Salop (ST 5525).

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* commentaire JC Even : s'agissant d'un passage de rivière, la racine est la même que l'indo-européen : *bhrw + dérivé en T + N, qui a par ailleurs donné ffrwyd, frout, noms de ruisseaux rapides et torrents, et les noms des gués, après aphérèse : *rit- et *r°t-n : tourbillon de confluence. 

Sources : 

- Eilert Ekwall : The concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. 4è édition. Clarendon Press. 1936-1980.

* A.L.F Rivet & Colin Smith : The Place-names of Roman Britain. Batsford Ltd. 1979-1982 

- A.D Mills : Oxford Dictionary of Brirish Place Names. Oxford University Press. 1991-2003

Liens électroniques des sites Internet traitant de Harcourt / Rutunium :

* lien communal officiel : 

* autres liens : 

http://www.roman-britain.org/places/rutunium.htm

* forum du site Marikavel : Academia Celtica

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