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. |