diff --git a/crates/polars-plan/src/plans/conversion/join.rs b/crates/polars-plan/src/plans/conversion/join.rs
index 60f7fc20f57e..4fa47e7695c8 100644
--- a/crates/polars-plan/src/plans/conversion/join.rs
+++ b/crates/polars-plan/src/plans/conversion/join.rs
@@ -163,7 +163,6 @@ fn resolve_join_where(
         .get(input_right)
         .schema(ctxt.lp_arena)
         .into_owned();
-
     for e in &predicates {
         let no_binary_comparisons = e
             .into_iter()
@@ -174,16 +173,23 @@ fn resolve_join_where(
             .count();
         polars_ensure!(no_binary_comparisons == 1, InvalidOperation: "only 1 binary comparison allowed as join condition");
 
-        fn all_in_schema(schema: &Schema, left: &Expr, right: &Expr) -> bool {
+        fn all_in_schema(
+            schema: &Schema,
+            other: Option<&Schema>,
+            left: &Expr,
+            right: &Expr,
+        ) -> bool {
             let mut iter =
                 expr_to_leaf_column_names_iter(left).chain(expr_to_leaf_column_names_iter(right));
-            iter.all(|name| schema.contains(name.as_str()))
+            iter.all(|name| {
+                schema.contains(name.as_str()) && other.map_or(true, |s| !s.contains(name.as_str()))
+            })
         }
 
         let valid = e.into_iter().all(|e| match e {
             Expr::BinaryExpr { left, op, right } if op.is_comparison() => {
-                !(all_in_schema(&schema_left, left, right)
-                    || all_in_schema(&schema_right, left, right))
+                !(all_in_schema(&schema_left, None, left, right)
+                    || all_in_schema(&schema_right, Some(&schema_left), left, right))
             },
             _ => true,
         });
diff --git a/crates/polars-python/src/lazyframe/visitor/nodes.rs b/crates/polars-python/src/lazyframe/visitor/nodes.rs
index ae805e7d0ff0..443e2240d326 100644
--- a/crates/polars-python/src/lazyframe/visitor/nodes.rs
+++ b/crates/polars-python/src/lazyframe/visitor/nodes.rs
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ pub(crate) fn into_py(py: Python<'_>, plan: &IR) -> PyResult<PyObject> {
                     },
                     options.args.join_nulls,
                     options.args.slice,
-                    options.args.suffix.as_deref(),
+                    options.args.suffix().as_str(),
                     options.args.coalesce.coalesce(how),
                 )
                     .to_object(py)
diff --git a/py-polars/tests/unit/operations/test_inequality_join.py b/py-polars/tests/unit/operations/test_inequality_join.py
index 872361197a8d..891ac32fa0ba 100644
--- a/py-polars/tests/unit/operations/test_inequality_join.py
+++ b/py-polars/tests/unit/operations/test_inequality_join.py
@@ -594,3 +594,17 @@ def test_join_on_strings() -> None:
         "a_right": ["a", "a", "b", "a", "b", "c"],
         "b_right": ["b", "b", "b", "b", "b", "b"],
     }
+
+
+def test_join_partial_column_name_overlap_19119() -> None:
+    left = pl.LazyFrame({"a": [1], "b": [2]})
+    right = pl.LazyFrame({"a": [2], "d": [0]})
+
+    q = left.join_where(right, pl.col("a") > pl.col("d"))
+
+    assert q.collect().to_dict(as_series=False) == {
+        "a": [1],
+        "b": [2],
+        "a_right": [2],
+        "d": [0],
+    }