I come across the German word "eigen" sometimes in English-language settings.
I was wondering: is there a word or combination of words in English that can replace "eigen"?
Examples:
Eigen-variety [cybernetics] - A car driver who has not learned to drive on ice does not have the requisite eigen-variety to handle icy conditions. Requisite variety is the ability to manage complex external situations.
Eigenschaften, from a paper about properties and characteristics of technical systems.
I honestly have no idea. I wonder if anyone reading does. We can always make one up (but I do mean "we" and not "me", because I don't know what this means. This example doesn't help). Just looked it up and it looks like it means "own", so basically the equivalent of auto-, yeah? Self- might also serve in certain instances. We could also just say the wunkness of a thing (as in, "It hasn't got the wunkness to pull this off"). Someone who's got the wunkness can be described as wunky, or a wunk (as in, "What a wunk! They can totally pull this off!").
