The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγόνυ“knee”
- English todaygonitis
From Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee”) + -itis (“inflammation”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekγόνυ all →
gon-gonodactyloidgony-gonyalgiagonyaulaxgonycampsisgonycrotesisgonyleptoidgonyoncus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.