What is the etiology of the word for ‘pyramid’

Question

Etiology as the origins study in linguistics is meant here to find the origin for the European words for the Egyptian pyramids.

It seems there is no acceptable answer to this question, leaving a lot of room for imagination. If the pyramids were pharaoh tombs, would that not be the origin for the Greek word? The Ancient Egyptian (AE) word for a pyramid transliterates to MR. I agree with I.E.S. Edwards, quoted later by Mark Lehner quoted again himself in the book Land of Osiris, that the Ancient Egyptians did not name it a pharaoh tomb but “place of ascension” which Edwards gives as an etymology for MR. He had doubts whether this was correct. I think pyramid as “pharaoh tomb” is not found in AE writings as that would mean the AE would acknowledge that the pharaoh was dead; something culturally inconceivable, because he was believed to ascend to heaven and live (see Pyramid texts). But foreigners considered the pharaoh human and his burial site was thus not called a ‘place of ascension’ by foreigners, but a ‘pharaoh grave’ (Modern Hebrew: pr3h mt) or ‘pharaoh tomb’ (AE pr maHat or maHat pr). So what is the etiology of the word ‘pyramid’?

Answer 1

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The entry on pyramís in Chantraine's Etymological Dictionary of Ancient Greek cites two senses of pyramís: "pyramid", and "grilled wheat grain cake mixed with honey" (Ephippus, cited in the Etymologicum Magnum); the usual form for the cake is pyramoûs.

Etymology: In the sense of "cake", the word is formed based on pyrós "wheat", by analogy with sēsamís, sēsamoûs "sesame cake". Diels, KZ 47, 1919, 193 hypothesised that the Pyramids were so called because they looked like the cake (whose shape we know nothing of), cf. Kretschmer, Gl. 10, 1920, 243. The hypothesis that it derives from an Egyptian loanword, pr-m-us "height", which goes back to Brugsch, Z. f. aegypt. Spr. 1874, is worthless.

Answer 2

the word Pyramid comes from Tamil language as it would have been constructed by migrant Tamils who have built huge stone temples in South India. In Tamil, Peru means Big and Idu (Kadu) means grave (yard) and hence the word Perumidu which became Pyramid.

Answer 3

Suppose it means temple, sacred place, similar to harem (cg. haram - forbidden). Then pyr mihjt relate to pure and fire. The cake sense would mean a creme brule. The tower sense named on wiktionary would relate to lighthouse. That is to say, your architectural "in" reading isn't convincing as far as I can tell, but the tomb idea is neat. I'd see mous (au chocolat) in the cake sense, but that may be later.

There's something about muscat and hiding, seclusion, about nuts and the seat of power, vital force, and something that doesn't check out about the common etymology for muscle. There's something about fire implying power and protection, too. There's something about wheat and power, and about wheat and purity afger having been threshed. The gloss reap for amao in the cake sense also has something of defeating. That sounds a tad too negative though.