Rich Wrote:
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> "Pharos means lighthouse in Greek"
> -- Certainly Pharos was home of one of the wonders
> of the world... the Great Lighthouse.
>
> My previous studies on the etymology of this word
> was that it had an egyptian root, with the same
> etymology as the term "Pharaoh". Perhaps my
> source(forgotten), was just speculating, though.
>
> Do you have a source to the greek etymology of
> this term?

it also meant plaugh, tillage

with a circumflex on the "a" letter it also meant cloth, coat, gravecloth


the word is created from the root pher - which meant to cut / drill, which also could mean knit