Zug

Meaning

underground train

Charaktereigenschaft

Tension

Eisenbahnzug

Triebfahrzeug

τρένο

αμαξοστοιχία

Frequency

Zürich

zug

Aargau

zog

Graubünden

zug

Appenzell Ausserrhoden

zug

Aargau

zug

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/t͡suːk/

Inherited from Middle High German

Inherited from Old High German

Cognate with Dutch

Cognate with Hunsrik

Cognate with English

Cognate with Old English

Cognate with German

In summary

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, 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”).

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