American Heritage Dictionary: -logy or -ology
Publishes related but morphologically distinct Greek formations.
Greek -logiā and -logos source channels- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins
PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
No. They are relatives in the Greek logos and legein family, but English -logy follows -logie, Latin -logia, and Greek -logiā, while prologue follows Greek prologos through Latin prologus and French prologue. Related ancestry does not erase distinct formations and transmission paths.
/-lədʒi/ · noun combining form
A bound English word element used in formations involving discourse or expression and in names of doctrines, theories, sciences, and fields of study.
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Publishes related but morphologically distinct Greek formations.
Greek -logiā and -logos source channelsPublishes the separate prologos to prologus to prologue whole-word route.
Prologue etymologyThe graph connects both paths at Greek logos without collapsing the English endings into one morpheme.