The story
- Teochew · borrowed from深“deep”
- Hokkien · borrowed from深“deep”
- English todaychiminology
From cheem + -ology on analogy of -inology words like criminology and terminology in which the -in- belongs to the Latin oblique stem, the former from either Hokkien 深 (chhim, “deep”) or Teochew 深 (cim¹, “deep”).
Words from the same roots
Hokkien深 all →
cheem
Teochew深 all →
cheem
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.