Are there Phoenicians in phonology?

A question from Mark Seidenberg: Is the English phono- morpheme etymologically related to Phoenicia/Phoenician, i.e., the corresponding Phoenician words? I have looked at the OED and other sources and I cannot connect the dots. The Phoenician word for “Phoenicia” has a couple of conjectured etymological bases unrelated to sound or voice. The Greeks then had […]