連ねる

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 連ねる(つらねる) is a transitive verb meaning to arrange things in a series or link them together.
• Basic usage: It appears in 名を連ねる, having one's name among others, and in descriptions of mountains joining their ridges.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Sentence structure compared with 連なる
  • 連なる(つらなる) describes things forming a continuous series. 山々が連なる says that mountains extend in a range, while the example's 尾根を連ねる marks what is linked with を.