[1835–45; glotto- + -logy]This word is first recorded in the period 1835–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: crosshead, faceplate, grandstand, hybridize, serial-logy is a combining form used in the names of sciences or bodies of knowledge. Other wordsthat use the affix -logy include: anthropology, chronology, geology, reflexology, tropology