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The 'Zeug' ending you're referencing doesn't just mean stuff - it comes from the verb zeugen (to procreate/beget).

So Flugzeug is really flight begetter (or perhaps flight creator)

And Feuerzeug is fire creator.

Much more sensible!

Yeah, English is funny language.

- plane - flat surface

- lighter - a lamp

- light bulb - empty bulb

- eyeball - a sport

(Non-native speaker).

Nice lateral thinking!

Yes, yes, but to my ear, "zeug" feels closer to "thing" than "stuff" in these examples. That's no less funny.

-zeug indicates that it is a set of things. Historically the fire stuff has been a set of tools to make fire. Zaumzeug was the set of gear you put on a horse etc.

Texas German has a less funny word for airplane: Luftschiff.

I think that would be an airship - zeppelin.

A Luftschiff is not an airplane, it's a Zeppelin because it floats in the air like a ship in the water.

Maybe it is in Texas German