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Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)

Ancient Greek -η (-ē)

Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)

English -graphy

From French -graphie, inherited from Latin -graphia, borrowed from Ancient Greek -γραφία (-graphía), from γραφή (graphḗ, “writing, drawing, description”). By surface analysis, -graph +‎ -y.

-graphy (noun-forming suffix, countable and uncountable, plural -graphies)

  1. Something written or otherwise represented in the specified manner, or about a specified subject.
  2. Field of study.

Suffix denoting a written or represented in the specified manner, or about a specified subject