"kompology" means braggadocio, empty boasting (though how that came about is not clear) - it has nothing to do with knotting even though that is the root.
No.You confuse two
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Those two words do not have the same root, and we know how one of them came to mean what you describe by "kompology".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Greek%E2%80%93English_Lexicon#Liddell_and_Scott.27s_lexicon http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ 1.
Kompos, in ancient /classic Greek, meaning knock, noise, sound. ( for example, k. of teeth )
( 8th century B.C., Homer, Iliad, Λ 417, M 149, M 151 )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer Metaphorically, also in ancient/classic Greek, kompos, kompasmos, meaning
making-noise-about-oneself, boast, bragger, bluster, swagger.
Pindar, 6th-5th century B.C..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pindar2.
Komvos. in medieval/modern Greek, meaning knot. Today it is pronounced as "kompos" ( consonant pair
mv turned into
mp), so this is probably what causes the confusion. From the same root, the word "komvion", now pronounced as "kombi" or 'koombi", meaning button.
( 5th century A.C., Hesychius)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychius_of_Alexandria The ancient/classic Greek word for "knot" is
"desmos".
Homer,
Iliad, Z 507,
Odyssey, A 204, N 100, Φ 241
For a somewhat more recent use of the word, see :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmodromic_valve 
