glottologyn.

1841 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man (1845) 132 Glottology, or the history of languages, founded on an accurate analysis of their relations, is almost a new field of inquiry.

1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 1345 There is no department of ethnology in which progress is at present so rapid, as it is in the study of glottology.

1868 F. M. Müller in Sel. Ess. (1881) I. 29 The conception of a science of language, of Glottology, was reserved for the nineteenth century.

1879 Cayley in Trans. Philol. Soc. 588 A wide scope for glottologic observation and research.

1848 Edinb. Rev. 88 478 Thus it appears that glottological considerations afford a strong presumption in favour of the origin of the nations of Asia, Europe, America, and Polynesia, from one common stock.

1883 St. James's Gaz. 26 Jan. 6 The glottological aspect of the question.

1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. vi. 236 As glottologists, we have to begin with roots.

1893 Athenæum 23 Dec. 883/1 A general glottologist of the rarest attainments.