Verfügung German · revision 35140

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /fɛɐ̯ˈfyːɡʊŋ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''Verfügung''' ''f'' (genitive Verfügung, plural Verfügungen)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|de|verfügen|-ung]].^(Wiktionary)^(Wiktionary DE)^(Pfeifer 1993) The verb [[verfügen]] is recorded from the 15th century, as Early New High German ⟨verfüegen⟩ and [[gml|vorvogen|t=to arrange]];^(Kluge 2011|951)^(Pfeifer 1993)^(Köbler MHD)^(Duden 7 2007) Köbler and Duden also list a rare [[gmh|vervüegen|t=to suit, befit]].^(Kluge 2011|951)^(Pfeifer 1993)^(Köbler MHD)^(Duden 7 2007) It was formed from [[fügen]], [[gmh|vüegen]], [[goh|fuogen|t=to join, fit together]], [[gmw-pro|*fōgijan]], which Kluge traces to [[ine-pro|*peh₂ḱ-|t=to fasten]], also found in [[sa|पाशयति|tr=pāśáyati|t=binds]], [[grc|πήγνυμι|tr=pḗgnumi|t=I fasten]] and [[la|compāgēs|t=joint]], the last from a variant of the root.^(Kluge 2011|322)^(EWA|3, 631)

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+ Among other things the verb meant “to arrange”, whence “to order, decree”, which became a typical word of officialdom.^(Kluge 2011|951)^(Duden 7 2007)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The Grimms' dictionary finds the noun rare in the older language and first in the dictionaries with Stieler;^(DWB|25, 358) Melanchthon used it in the original sense “joining together”, in his commentary on 1 Corinthians 13.^(DWB|25, 358) Pfeifer dates the sense “order” to the 16th century, Duden to the 17th.^(Pfeifer 1993)^(Duden 7 2007)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Paul records ''Verfügung'' as “order” and as “the thing ordered” from Stieler, and the set phrase ''eine Verfügung treffen'' from Schiller's ''Maria Stuart''.^(Paul 2002) A ''letztwillige Verfügung'' is a will.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(DWB|25, 358)

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+ In the 19th century ''über etwas verfügen'' came to mean “to have something at one's disposal, use it freely”, and with it ''Verfügung'' “the power to dispose of something” in the phrases ''zur Verfügung stehen'' and ''zur Verfügung stellen''.^(Duden 7 2007)^(Paul 2002) The adjective ''verfügbar'' was formed in the 19th century to translate ''disponibel''.^(Duden 7 2007)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 15th century – The verb ''verfügen'' is first recorded.^(Kluge 2011|951)

+ * 16th century – Melanchthon uses ''verfügung'' for “joining together”; the sense “order” appears.^(DWB|25, 358)^(Pfeifer 1993)

+ * 17th century – Stieler records ''Verfügung'' “order, decree”.^(DWB|25, 358)^(Paul 2002)

+ * 19th century – ''über etwas verfügen'' “to have at one's disposal” and ''verfügbar'' appear.^(Duden 7 2007)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|order]] or [[m|en|decree]] of an authority or a court: ''eine einstweilige Verfügung'' “an interim [[m|en|injunction]]”;^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary) ''eine letztwillige Verfügung'' “a last will”.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|disposal|alt=Disposal]]: the right or ability to use something freely: ''zur Verfügung stehen'' “to be available”, ''etwas zur Verfügung stellen'' “to make something available”.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(law)'' A [[m|en|disposition]]: a legal act that directly affects an existing right, such as transferring it to someone else.^(Wiktionary DE)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[Verfügungsgewalt]]

+ * [[verfügungsberechtigt]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[verfügbar]]

+ * [[verfügen]]

+ * [[fügen]]

+ * [[Fuge]]

+ * [[Fug]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}