This verb, used transitively, means: to form a way and, forming it, to keep it ready. Way-making understood in this sense no longer means to move something up or down a path that is already there. It means to bring the way ... forth first of all, and thus to be the way.
Appropriation appropriates man to its own usage. Showing as appropriating thus transpires and Appropriation is the way-making for Saying to come into language.
This way-making puts language (the essence of language) as language (Saying) into language (into the sounded word). When we speak of the way to language now, we no longer mean only or primarily the progression of our thinking as it reflects on language. The way to language has become transformed along the way. From human activity it has shifted to the appropriating nature of language. But it is only to us and only with regard to ourselves that the change of the way to language appears as a shift which has taken place only now. In truth, the way to language has its unique region within the essence of language itself. But this means also: the way to language as we first had it in mind does not become invalid; it becomes possible and necessary only in virtue of the true way which is the appropriating, needful way-making. For, since the being of language, as Saying that shows, rests on Appropriation which makes us humans over to the releasement in which we can listen freely, therefore the way-making of Saying into speech tint opens up for us the paths along which our thinking can pursue the authentic way to language.
The formula for the way: to speak about speech qua speech, no longer merely contains a directive for us who are thinking about language, but says the forma, the Gestalt, in which the essence of language that rests"in Appropriation makes its way.
If we attend Without further thought only to the words of our formula, it expresses a mesh of relations in which language becomes entangled. It looks as if any attempt to form a notion of language required dialectical tricks to escape from this tangle. Yet such a procedure, which the formula seem! literally to invite, loses the possibility of grasping the simplicity of the essence of language thoughtfully (that is, by entering idiomatically