-legnia

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Can you give some examples of actual words with this element in them?

I tried every variant spelling I could imagine, in Latin and Greek, and couldn’t find any word that quite made sense.

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Could “lagona(flask)” have something to do with that?

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After looking around a bit, I think you must mean the suffix -lagnia, from the Greek word lagneia “lust”.

Here is a page I found with some -lagnia words.


            


            

              
              
              
            



            
          

          

            

              



              
                  
                  
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I could only find this for the legnia in saprolegnia:








Saprolegnia (sapro-, “rotted” + -legnia, “border” – a “halo of rottenness”)




From: http://employees.csbsju.edu/wlamberts/bio306/vocab/vocab2.htm


The only l-word I know similar to “border” is Latin limen.  It may be related somehow to this -legnia.