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Combining Forms, Prefixes, and Suffixes — Explanatory Notes
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- lexicographic methodology
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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-logy never simply meant “the study of.”
The bound form’s recorded range includes expression and discourse as well as doctrine, theory, science, and study. Its trail reaches Greek logos—word, speech, account, reckoning, reason—rather than a prehistoric word meaning “science.”
*leǵ-
*leǵ- → λέγω → λόγος → -λογία → -logia → -logie → -logie → -logy
Hyphenated combining-form entry explanationEstablishes that the displayed hyphen marks a bound word element.
-logy dossier ↗truth record ↗89UNVEILING
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Was -logy a freestanding ancestral word?
No evidence reviewed here supports that representation. Merriam-Webster calls -logy a noun combining form and explains that a hyphenated entry is a word element forming part of a compound; the historical forms are likewise evidenced within larger formations. The unrelated adjective logy “sluggish” has a different history.
Combining Forms, Prefixes, and SuffixesDefines a hyphenated entry such as -logy as a word element that forms part of a compound.
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stage 5context
Global English
Explains the lexicographic status of -logy as a bound word element.
Hyphenated word elements and -logy example · global070
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