Zug

From German Zug.

Zug

1. A canton of Switzerland.

   Synonym: canton of Zug

2. The capital city of Zug canton, Switzerland.

• (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)}

• 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, Hunsrik Zugh, English tug, Old English tyġe. Compare to German ziehen (“to pull, to draw”).

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

1. train (multiple vehicles one behind the other, particularly travelling on rails)

   Synonyms: Bahn, Eisenbahn

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

   Synonym: Luftzug

4. traction
5. course
6. (from a cigarette, etc.) drag, draught
7. (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.

8. stroke
9. feature, trait

   Synonyms: Wesenszug, Eigenart, Eigenschaft

10. (military) platoon

    Synonyms: Schützenzug, Peloton

11. (turn based games) move, play

    Synonym: Spielzug

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

Kanton Zug

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)

1. Zug (a canton of Switzerland)

   Synonym: Kanton Zug

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

• Zuger, Zugerin

• (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)}

• “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