-ology

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

-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.

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

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

• ology

• LOOGY, gooly, loogy