logi

One hat changes everything here. Logi is to lure; loĝi is to live somewhere, to dwell. The only difference between them is the circumflex on the g, and in the accent-stripped x-system they are written logi and logxi, one letter apart. Say mi logas en Londono and you have announced that you are enticing people in London, which is a different proposition from living there.

The two are pronounced clearly differently - logi has a hard g as in go, loĝi has the soft j of judge - so this is a written trap rather than a spoken one. It bites hardest when typing without the diacritics, and the only cure is to be deliberate about which one you mean.

What logi actually does is pull somebody towards something by making it attractive. The bait can be innocent (a smell, a price, good weather) or not (a promise, a lie). Allogi is the same root with al- glued on and is the commoner word for attract in the neutral sense, while delogi moves firmly into seduction and leading astray. The bait itself is logaĵo, and something with pulling power is loga.