Zug

From German Zug.

Zug

1. A canton of Switzerland.

   Synonym: canton of Zug

2. The capital city of Zug canton, Switzerland.

• guz

• IPA^(key): /t͡suːk/ (standard)

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• IPA^(key): /t͡sʊx/, /t͡suːx/ (northern and central Germany; now chiefly colloquial)
• Rhymes: -uːk, -ʊx

From 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, Low German Tog, Hunsrik Zugh, English tug, Old English tyġe. Related to and synchronically serving as the associated noun of ziehen (“to pull, to draw”).

Zug m (strong, genitive Zuges or Zugs, plural Züge)

1. procession (larger group moving together along a common route)
   1. train (multiple vehicles one behind the other, particularly travelling on rails)

      Synonyms: Bahn, Eisenbahn

   2. (military) platoon

      Synonyms: Schützenzug, Peloton

2. pull (force that pulls in a specific direction)
   1. draught (of air)

      Synonym: Luftzug

3. pull, yank (singular pulling action)
   1. drag, draught (from a cigarette, etc.)
   2. draught, gulp (from a drink)

      Synonym: Schluck

      • 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.

   3. (sports) stroke, move (singular pulling arm movement such as to proceed; e.g. in swimming, rowing, climbing)
4. feature, trait

   Synonyms: Wesenszug, Eigenart, Eigenschaft

5. (turn based games) move, play

   Synonym: Spielzug

6. (chiefly in compounds) pulley, pulling mechanism

• → Czech: cuk
• → Hungarian: cúg
• → Kashubian: cuch
• → Norwegian Bokmål: tog
• → Polish: cug
• → Silesian: cug

Originally a use of Etymology 1 above, referring to the pulling up of fish with nets.

• ZG (canton; ISO 3166-2:CH)

Zug n (proper noun, genitive Zugs or (optionally with an article) Zug)

2. Zug (a canton of Switzerland)

   Synonym: Kanton Zug

3. Zug (the capital city of Zug canton, Switzerland)

• Zuger, Zugerin

• “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