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They assigned them this name owing to one or all of the following three conceptual links:
1. φονος (phonos) -- which means "murder"
2. φοινικος (phoinikos) -- which means "blood red, red"
3. φοινιξ (phoinix) -- which means "phoenix" but can also mean "purple or a Canaanite".