-ology

See also: ology

English

Etymology

From -o- (interconsonantal vowel) +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒləd͡ʒi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑləd͡ʒi/

Suffix

-ology

1. Alternative form of -logy, used for phonological reasons when the preceding morpheme ends in certain consonant sounds.
2. (often humorous) added to an ordinary English word to create a name for a (possibly non-existent) field of study.
   • 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.

   • 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...

   • 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.

   • 1998, British Telecom advert from 1988 with Maureen Lipman - Ology‎^[1]:

     He gets an -ology and says he failed!

   • 2010 October 17, Hadley Freeman, “Tattoos: what makes one spiritual and another Katona-esque?”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Yet it is interesting to research the tattoo-ology of Katona right after a yoga class.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -ology

Related terms

• ology

Translations

branch of learning

• Armenian: -բանություն (-banutʻyun)
• Burmese: ဗေဒ (my) (beda.), ပညာ (my) (pa.nya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 學／学 (zh) (xué), 研究 (zh) (yánjiū)

• Czech: -logie f or f pl
• Dutch: -ologie f
• Farefare: -karẽn
• Finnish: -ologia (fi)
• French: -ologie
• Galician: -oloxía f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: -ologie f
• Greek: -ο--λογία (el) f (-logía)
• Hebrew: ־ולוגיה f (-ológya)
• Hungarian: -ológia, -tudomány (hu), -tan (hu)
• Indonesian: -ologi
• Italian: -ologia f
• Japanese: 学 (ja) (がく, -gaku)
• Khmer: -វិទ្យា (km) (vityiə), -សាស្ត្រ (saastrɑɑ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: -logi (no)

• Polish: -logia (pl) f
• Portuguese: -ologia f
• Romanian: -ologie f
• Russian: -оло́гия f (-ológija)
• Spanish: -ología f
• Tagalog: -olohiya
• Thai: ศาสตร์ (th) (sàat)
• Tibetan: རིག་པ (rig pa)
• Vietnamese: học (vi) nghiên cứu (vi)
• Welsh: -eg (cy) f, -oleg f

See also

• wikipedia:List of words ending in ology

Anagrams

• LOOGY, gooly, loogy