Zug
English
editEtymology
editProper noun
editZug
- A canton of Switzerland.
- Synonym: canton of Zug
- The capital city of Zug canton, Switzerland.
Translations
editcanton
See also
edit- (cantons of Switzerland) Appenzell Inner Rhodes, Appenzell Outer Rhodes, Aargau, Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Glarus, Grisons, Jura, Lucerne, Neuchâtel, Nidwalden, Obwalden, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Thurgau, Ticino, Uri, Vaud, Valais, Zug, Zurich (Category: en:Cantons of Switzerland)
Anagrams
editGerman
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /t͡suːk/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /t͡sʊx/, /t͡suːx/ (northern and central Germany; now chiefly colloquial)
- Rhymes: -uːk, -ʊx
Etymology 1
editFrom Middle High German zuc, zug, from Old High German zug, from Proto-West Germanic *tugi, from Proto-Germanic *tugiz, an abstract noun belonging to Proto-Germanic *teuhaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”).[1]
Cognate with Dutch teug, Hunsrik Zugh, English tug, Old English tyġe. Compare to German ziehen (“to pull, to draw”).
Noun
editZug m (strong, genitive Zuges or Zugs, plural Züge)
- train (multiple vehicles one behind the other, particularly travelling on rails)
- pull (force that pulls in a specific direction)
- draught (of air)
- Synonym: Luftzug
- traction
- course
- (from a cigarette, etc.) drag, draught
- (from a drink) draught, gulp
- 1931, Arthur Schnitzler, Flucht in die Finsternis, S. Fischer Verlag, page 36:
- Ein frisch gefülltes Glas Champagner stand vor ihm. Er trank es in einem Zug aus – mit Lust, fast mit Begier.
- A freshly filled glass of champagne was in front of him. He emptied it in one draught – with pleasure, almost with greed.
- stroke
- feature, trait
- Synonyms: Wesenszug, Eigenart, Eigenschaft
- (military) platoon
- Synonyms: Schützenzug, Peloton
- (turn based games) move, play
- Synonym: Spielzug
Declension
editDeclension of Zug [masculine, strong]
Hyponyms
editDerived terms
editDescendants
editEtymology 2
editOriginally a use of Etymology 1 above, referring to the pulling up of fish with nets.
Alternative forms
edit- ZG (canton; ISO 3166-2:CH)
Proper noun
editZug n (proper noun, genitive Zugs or (optionally with an article) Zug)
- Zug (a canton of Switzerland)
- Synonym: Kanton Zug
- Zug (the capital city of Zug canton, Switzerland)
Declension
editDeclension of Zug [sg-only, neuter, toponym]
Derived terms
editSee also
edit- (cantons of Switzerland) Schweizer Kantone; Aargau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Bern, Freiburg, Genf, Glarus, Graubünden, Jura, Luzern, Neuenburg, Nidwalden, Obwalden, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Tessin, Thurgau, Uri, Waadt, Wallis, Zug, Zürich (Category: de:Cantons of Switzerland)
References
edit- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Zug”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
Further reading
edit- “Zug” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Zug” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Zug” in OpenThesaurus.de
- Zug on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Zug”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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