Zug

Significado

Noun

1. (masculine,strong) train (multiple vehicles one behind the other, particularly travelling on rails)
2. (masculine,strong) pull (force that pulls in a specific direction)
3. (masculine,strong) draught (of air)
4. (masculine,strong) traction
5. (masculine,strong) course
6. (masculine,strong,usually) drag, draught
7. (masculine,strong) draught, gulp
8. (masculine,strong) stroke
9. (masculine,strong) feature, trait
10. (masculine,strong) platoon
11. (masculine,strong) move, play

Name

1. (neuter,proper-noun) Zug (a canton of Switzerland)
2. (neuter,proper-noun) Zug (the capital city of Zug canton, Switzerland)

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/t͡suːk/

Etimoloxía

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”).

Oracións

Der Zug kam dreizehn Minuten zu spät .

The train was thirteen minutes late.