Since “logos” can also mean “words”, logic, it turns out, is very reasonably termed to mean “to reason with words”. Now logic can be transposed on to a lot of things. When you use it to shorten calculations, you get logarithms. When you make a blog centred around words, it’s logocentric, and you have to be careful not to get carried away; that condition would be logorrhea (yes, you may now take that suffix, “rhoia” which means “flow”, and make many more disgusting words).
The words you saw in an attempt to move “away” from your previous words or actions becomes an apology. A word, when it comes to represent a whole becomes a logogram. Like how “-ology: derived from logos now means “a study of”. So a study of words, then by tautology and logic, becomes logology.
In fact, “ology” has become so logogramous that you can get the scientific term of most branches of studies by simply adding “ology” at the end of the root word of that particular field of study. And that’s how etymology, the “ology” of “etym” aka “origin”, becomes important.
There’s one more reason why etymology is important though. It helps you distinguish between children, mud, and feet, which is easier seen than said.
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