ფენიქსი • (p'enik'si)= Phoenix, phoenix=, Φοίνιξ

ფენიქსი • (p'enik'si)= Phoenix, phoenix=, Φοίνιξ

WIKTIONARY: Etymology

Phoenix
From Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoinix), Φοῖνιξ (Phoinix), from Egyptian Fnkhw (“Syrian people”). Signifies "mythical bird," also "the date" (fruit and tree), also "Phoenician," literally "purple-red," perhaps a foreign word, or from phoinos (“blood-red”). Exact relation and order of the senses in Greek is unclear.

phoenix
From Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoĩnix), from Egyptian bnw (boinu, “grey heron”). The grey heron was venerated at Heliopolis and associated in Egypt with the cyclical renewal of life because the bird rises in flight at dawn and migrates back every year in the flood season to inhabit the Nile waters.[1]