Dictionary verb zu verb *ar(ə)- ordnen zuordnen

zuordnen

(zu verb)

Meanings

1.
to allocate something to someone, to classify something as part of a group
("etwas (Acc) einer Sache (Dat) zuordnen" - the translations depend on context but the core idea is that you take an item (thing, being) and say "This belongs to this item/being/group". That can be for categorization as well as for assignments.)
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Word Family

Root: *ar(ə)-

The core idea of this root was:

fitting together

It’s the origin of a quite wide array of words that all in some way are about connecting parts or making parts fit.
Here’s a little (incomplete) overview:

  • arm (bones joined together into a whole)
  • arthritis (“related to joints”)
  • arm (tool fitted together, then “weapon”)
  • armor (again, stuff fitted together)
  • alarm (originally: “to the weapons”)
  • art, artificial, artist, artifact (“stuff fitted together”)
  • article (“part of a whole”)
  • articulate (“to say clearly, as separate parts”)
  • order (“fitted together”)
  • ordinary (originally “according to order”)
  • subordinate (“ordered below”)
  • harmony (“fitting tones”)
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