The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἄλγος“pain”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγόνυ“knee”
- English todaygonyalgia
From gony- (“knee”) + -algia (“pain”), from Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee”) and Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekγόνυ all →
gon-gonitisgonodactyloidgony-gonyaulaxgonycampsisgonycrotesisgonyleptoidgonyoncus
Ancient Greekἄλγος all →
algedonicalgedonicsalginuresisalgo-algolagniaalgophobiaantalgicveisalgia
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.