ланцуг

Borrowed from Polish łańcuch, from an unattested compound of Middle High German lanne (“chain”) and Middle High German zug (“tug, pull”), the former being from Old High German lanna (“metal sheet, platelet; chain”), from Vulgar Latin lanna from Latin lāmina (“sheet especially of metal”), the latter from the well-known Proto-Germanic *tugiz (“tug, pull”). Ukrainian ланцю́г (lancjúh), Russian ланцу́г (lancúg) and Romanian lanț are from the same source.

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ланцу́г • (lancúh) m inan (genitive ланцуга́, nominative plural ланцугі́, genitive plural ланцуго́ў)

1. chain

Borrowed from Polish łańcuch, from an unattested compound of Middle High German lanne (“chain”) and Middle High German zug (“tug, pull”), the former being from Old High German lanna (“metal sheet, platelet; chain”), from Vulgar Latin lanna from Latin lāmina (“sheet especially of metal”), the latter from the well-known Proto-Germanic *tugiz (“tug, pull”). Ukrainian ланцю́г (lancjúh) and Belarusian ланцу́г (lancúh) are from the same source.

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ланцу́г • (lancúg) m inan (genitive ланцуга́, nominative plural ланцуги́, genitive plural ланцуго́в)

1. (dialectal) chain

   Synonym: цепь (cepʹ)

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “ланцуг”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ланцуг”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress