-ology

ology English Etymology en :af -o-<pos:interconsonantal vowel><id:connective> -logy 1 + 1 Pronunciation en /ˈɒləd͡ʒi/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl--ology.wav Southern England en /ˈɑləd͡ʒi/ GA,Atlantic Canada en /ˈɒləd͡ʒi/ CA,Boston,Maine en /ˈɔləd͡ʒi/ AU en [ˈɔ̟ləd͡ʒi] NZ en -o lo gy Suffix en -logy, used for phonological reasons when the preceding morpheme ends in certain consonant sounds. en often humorous added to an ordinary English word to create a name for a (possibly non-existent) field of study. en 1843 Thomas Chandler Haliburton The Attache; or, Sam Slick in England Qell, he knows all about mineralogy, and geology, and astrology, and every thing a'most, except what he ought to know, and that is dollar-ology. en 1857 Delia Bacon The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded ...so long as a mere human word-ology is suffered to remain here, clogging all with its deadly impotence... en 1916 Jack London The Little Lady of the Big House It seems he'd been making original researches in anthropology, or folk-lore-ology, or something like that. en British Telecom advert from 1988 with Maureen Lipman - Ology 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK5-2fPyCjA He gets an -ology and says he failed! en 2010-10-17 Tattoos: what makes one spiritual and another Katona-esque? w:Hadley Freeman w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/17/tattoos-on-women Yet it is interesting to research the tattoo-ology of Katona right after a yoga class. Derived terms en Related terms en ology Translations branch of learning Armenian: hy -բանություն Burmese: my ဗေဒ, my ပညာ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 學 xué, cmn 研究 yánjiū Czech: cs -logie f f-p Dutch: nl -ologie f Farefare: gur -karẽn Finnish: fi -logia -ologia French: fr -ologie Galician: gl -oloxía f Georgian: ka German: de -ologie f Greek: -ο-el -λογία f Hebrew: he ־ולוגיה f -ológya Hungarian: hu -ológia, hu tudomány -tudomány, hu tan -tan Indonesian: id -ologi Italian: it -ologia f Japanese: ja 学 がく, -gaku Khmer: km វិទ្យា -វិទ្យា, km សាស្ត្រ -សាស្ត្រ Norwegian: Bokmål: nb -logi Polish: pl -logia f Portuguese: pt -ologia f Romanian: ro -ologie f Russian: ru -оло́гия f Spanish: es -ología f Tagalog: tl -olohiya Tamil: ta -இயல் Thai: th ศาสตร์ Tibetan: bo རིག་པ Vietnamese: vi học vi nghiên cứu Welsh: cy -eg f, cy -oleg f See also wikipedia:List of words ending in ology Anagrams en glooy LOOGY gooly loogy en productive suffixes