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-gony

Production, genesis or origination.

Greek ‑gonia, begetting.

Cosmogony (Greek kosmos, world) is a theory about the creation of the universe, or the branch of science concerned; sporogony is the asexual process of spore formation in parasitic sporozoans; schizogony (Greek skhizein, to split) refers to asexual reproduction by multiple fission; theogony (Greek theos, god) the genealogy of a group or system of gods. Whilst agony also comes from Greek, it has a different source: agōn, contest.

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