Zusammenhang German · revision 35750

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''Zusammenhang''' ''m'' (genitive Zusammenhanges or Zusammenhangs, plural Zusammenhänge)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Paul explains it as a back-formation from the verb [[zusammenhängen]], older “zusammenhangen”, recorded by Kaspar Stieler in 1691.^(Paul 2002) Wiktionary analyses it as [[af|de|zusammen-|Hang]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Stieler records it in 1691.^(DWB|32, 748)^(Paul 2002) The Grimms' dictionary names Christian Wolff as the writer who brought it into wide use, in the sense of the connection between ground and consequence or cause and effect: ''jemehr man den Zusammenhang der wahrheiten einsiehet, jemehr hat man vernunfft'' (1720, “the more one sees the connection of truths, the more reason one has”).^(DWB|32, 748)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Wolff introduced it into the language of philosophy.^(Paul 2002)^(DWB|32, 748) Besides the logical sense it was used for physical [[m|en|cohesion]] (Kant), for the continuity of land and buildings, for the unity of a people, and for the context of a passage, as when Lessing asks the reader to look at a passage ''im Zusammenhange''.^(DWB|32, 748) Adelung around 1800 defines it as the state in which the separable parts of a thing are joined, as in the coherence of a sermon.^(Adelung 1793|4, 1770) The adjective ''unzusammenhängend'' (17th century) follows Latin ''incohaerens'' and French ''incohérent''.^(Paul 2002)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1691 – Kaspar Stieler records ''Zusammenhang'' and ''zusammenhangen''.^(Paul 2002)

+ * 1720 – Christian Wolff uses it of the connection of truths.^(DWB|32, 748)

+ * Around 1800 – Adelung defines it as the joining of the parts of a thing.^(Adelung 1793|4, 1770)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|connection]] or relation between events or facts: ''Es gibt einen Zusammenhang zwischen Schlaf und Gedächtnis.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|context]]: ''Das Zitat wurde aus dem Zusammenhang gerissen.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|coherence]], the hanging together of parts.^(Wiktionary)^(Adelung 1793|4, 1770)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[zusammenhanglos]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[zusammenhängen]]

+ * [[zusammen]]

+ * [[Hang]]

+ * [[hängen]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''In diesem Zusammenhang'' “in this connection” introduces a related point, and ''im Zusammenhang mit'' means “in connection with”.^(Duden GWDS 1999)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}