# Zug
## English
### Etymology

From German Zug.

### Proper noun

Zug
* A canton of Switzerland.
    Synonym: canton of Zug
* The capital city of Zug canton, Switzerland.

#### Translations
### See also

* Aargau
* Appenzell Inner Rhodes
* Appenzell Outer Rhodes
* Basel-Landschaft
* Basel-Stadt
* Bern
* Fribourg
* Geneva
* Glarus
* Grisons
* Jura
* Lucerne
* Neuchâtel
* Nidwalden
* Obwalden
* Schaffhausen
* Schwyz
* Solothurn
* St. Gallen
* Thurgau
* Ticino
* Uri
* Valais
* Vaud
* Zug
* Zurich

### Anagrams

* guz

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡suːk/ (standard)
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* IPA: /t͡sʊx/, /t͡suːx/ (northern and central Germany; now chiefly colloquial)
* Rhymes: -uːk, -ʊx

### Etymology 1

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”).
Cognate with Dutch teug, Hunsrik Zugh, English tug, Old English tyġe. Compare to German ziehen (“to pull, to draw”).

#### Noun

Zug m (strong, genitive Zuges or Zugs, plural Züge)
* train (multiple vehicles one behind the other, particularly travelling on rails)
    Synonyms: Bahn, Eisenbahn
* 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

$^1$Now rare, see notes.

##### Hyponyms

* Spielzug

##### Derived terms

* auf den Zug aufspringen
* Aufzug
* Autozug
* Bummelzug
* Fernzug
* Luftzug
* Regionalzug
* Schnellzug
* Schützenzug
* Sonderzug
* zugartig
* Zugbremse
* Zugfahrt
* zügig
* zugig
* Zugleine
* Zugluft
* Zugspitze
* Zugvogel
* Zugzwang

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 2

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

#### Alternative forms

* ZG (canton; ISO 3166-2:CH)

#### Proper noun

Zug 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

$^1$Optionally with an article.

##### Derived terms

* Zuger, Zugerin

#### See also

* 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

### References

* ↑ 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

* “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