Etymology

-gony

Today it means: Forms nouns that describe the genesis of a class of thing. Full definition →

Ancient Greek γονή
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromγονή“generation”
  2. English today-gony

From Ancient Greek γονή (gonḗ, “generation”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekγονή all →

gonad-gonium

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