V. THE EVENT
THE VOCABULARY OF IT'S ESSENCE1



Regarding the introduction to The event




1. This vocabulary consists of the German term for “event” and ten other terms linguistically connected to it. The root common to them all is eignen, “be proper to,” “appertain.” It is not possible to carry out the same play on words in an English translation. The terms are:

das Ereignis event
das Ereignen appropriation
die Vereignung expropriation
die Übereignung consignment
die Zueignung arrogation
die Aneignung adoption
die Eigentlichkeit properness
die Eignung eventuation
die Geeignetheit appropriateness
die Enteignung dispropriation
das Eigentum domain of what is proper.—Trans.

Martin Heidegger (GA 71) The Event page 125