-gon

See also: gon, gôn, goñ, gọn, goŋ, gon-, and gon'

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía, “corner, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”).

Suffix

-gon

  1. (geometry) Forms the names of plane figures containing a given number of angles, and thus bounded by that number of line segments (polygons). If the number is large enough, it can take the hyphenated suffix directly.
    A pentagon has five sides.
    a 17-gon

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Ojibwe

Suffix

-gon

  1. day
    ingodwaasogon — six days
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