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Wow, eta, maybe you are indeed of Welsh extraction--cool! But according to the site I put above, you'll have a heckuva time doing genealogy. I found a dictionary site where you can enter a word and have it bring it up any word that it's a part of; nothing on grw by itself, but here's the page**--I like the purr version, myself! http://oldweb.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/LexiconForms.html**Ok, just did a preview and found that it won't let you go to the specific page, just the opening one. Type in grw and set it for Partial word.
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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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Was this just the product of Lovecraft's overheated imagination or is there indeed such a connection?
Not sure if it was Lovecraft's or one of his sources. Could be. But it might also be a loanword from Egyptian.
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Connection between pur and pyramid, Bingley? Firemid? Yes, that works for me.
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From AHD: pyre (pîr) n. A heap of combustibles for burning a corpse as a funeral rite. A pile of combustibles. [Latin pyra, from Greek purâ, from pûr, fire.]
pyr·a·mid (pĭr'ə-mĭd) n.
1. a. A solid figure with a polygonal base and triangular faces that meet at a common point. b. Something shaped like this polyhedron. 2. a. A massive monument of ancient Egypt having a rectangular base and four triangular faces culminating in a single apex, built over or around a crypt or tomb. b. Any of various similar constructions, especially a four-sided Mesoamerican temple having stepped sides and a flat top surmounted by chambers.
3. The transactions involved in pyramiding stock. 4. Anatomy. A structure or part suggestive of a pyramid in shape.
v., -mid·ed, -mid·ing, -mids.
v.tr. 1. To place or build in the shape of a pyramid. 2. To build (an argument or thesis, for example) progressively from a basic general premise. 3. To speculate in (stock) by making a series of buying and selling transactions in which paper profits are used as margin for buying more stock.
v.intr. 1. To assume the shape of a pyramid. 2. To increase rapidly and on a widening base. 3. To pyramid stocks. [Latin p[ymacr]ramis, p[ymacr]ramid-, from Greek pûramis, probably from Egyptian pimar.]
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probably from Egyptian pimar
The common Egyptian word for pyramid is mr.
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There are a lot of words with root "pyr-" Previous Dictionary Browser Next pyrolatry pyroligneous pyroligneous acid pyrolignic Pyrolignite Pyrolignous Pyrolithic Pyrologist Pyrology pyrolusite pyrolytic Pyromagnetic Pyromalate Pyromalic pyromancer pyromancy pyromania pyromaniac Pyromantic pyrometer For instance, all petroleum products are made by pyrolysis, in which the very long carbon chains are broken into shorter chains. The long chains are lubricating oils and wax from one type of oil, and asphalt in the other kind. The middle length chains are kerosene. And just a bit shorter, petrol,gasoline. Of course in this process oxygen has to be excluded. The alchemists knew how to make methyl alcohol by "destructive distillation" of wood. Most methyl alcohol is now made from methane by hydrogenation.
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