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Pur is fire in Greek. ... Anywho, the root is cognate with the English word fire, from *pewor, *pur- 'fire'. Other fire roots include the one that Latin ignis and Sanskrit agni are related to, *egnis ~ *ognis 'fire'.

I remember as a teenager reading a story (I forget the title) by HP Lovecraft or somebody of that sort where an important plot point was an alleged etymological connection between Gk pur/pyr and pyramid. Was this just the product of Lovecraft's overheated imagination or is there indeed such a connection?

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