Zeug
See also: zeug
English
editEtymology
editProper noun
editZeug (plural Zeugs)
- A surname from German.
Statistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Zeug is the 80419th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 236 individuals. Zeug is most common among White (93.64%) individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Zeug”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears
German
editAlternative forms
edit- Zeugs (chiefly informal and pejorative)
Etymology
editFrom Middle High German ziuc (“stuff, gear”), from Old High German giziug, from Proto-West Germanic *teug, from Proto-Germanic *teugą. Compare Dutch tuig (“tool, gear”), Old Norse tygi (“gear”). More at toy.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /t͡sɔʏ̯k/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /t͡sɔʏ̯ç/ (northern and central Germany; now chiefly colloquial)
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɔʏ̯k, -ɔɪ̯ç
Noun
editZeug n (strong, genitive Zeuges or Zeugs, plural Zeuge)
- stuff, gear, equipment
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:Zeug
- Coordinate terms: Ding, Gegenstand, Sache
- material
- Synonym: Material
- fabric, clothing, clothes
- Synonym: Stoff
- rubbish, anything bad or harmful
Usage notes
edit- The plural Zeuge is quite rare since Zeug is normally an uncountable word. Some compounds, however, are countable (e.g. Fahrzeug) or may be countable depending on the context (e.g. Werkzeug). An alternate obsolete plural is Zeuger.
- Until the 19th century, Zeug was often treated as masculine by southern writers, except in the sense “fabric”, where the masculine was very rare. This usage is now obsolete and Zeug is exclusively neuter in contemporary German.
Declension
editDeclension of Zeug [neuter, strong]
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Czech: cajk
Further reading
edit- “Zeug” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Zeug” in Duden online
- “Zeug” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Zeug”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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