Mies
Appearance
Alemannic German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German mies, from Old High German mios, an ablauted form of mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog”). Cognate with German Mies.
Noun
[edit]Mies n
References
[edit]- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 65.
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -is
Proper noun
[edit]Mies f
- a diminutive of the female given name Maria
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]< mies (“man”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Mies
- (rare as a first name) a male given name
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of Mies (Kotus type 42/mies, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Mies | Miehet | |
| genitive | Miehen | Miesten Miehien | |
| partitive | Miestä | Miehiä | |
| illative | Mieheen | Miehiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Mies | Miehet | |
| accusative | nom. | Mies | Miehet |
| gen. | Miehen | ||
| genitive | Miehen | Miesten Miehien | |
| partitive | Miestä | Miehiä | |
| inessive | Miehessä | Miehissä | |
| elative | Miehestä | Miehistä | |
| illative | Mieheen | Miehiin | |
| adessive | Miehellä | Miehillä | |
| ablative | Mieheltä | Miehiltä | |
| allative | Miehelle | Miehille | |
| essive | Miehenä | Miehinä | |
| translative | Mieheksi | Miehiksi | |
| abessive | Miehettä | Miehittä | |
| instructive | — | Miehin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Statistics
[edit]- The given name Mies belongs to 13 male individuals (and as a middle name to 79 more, making it overwhelmingly more common as a middle name), according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Mies n (proper noun, genitive Mies' or (with an article) Mies)
- a city in Bohemia, Czech Republic
Proper noun
[edit]Mies f (proper noun, genitive Mies)
- a river in Bavaria, Germany and Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Alternative form: (to distinguish from the city) Miesa
Proper noun
[edit]Mies m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Mies' or (with an article) Mies, feminine genitive Mies, plural Mies or Miesens)
- a surname
- a unisex given name from Dutch
Further reading
[edit]
Mies (Fluss) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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- Alemannic German terms inherited from Middle High German
- Alemannic German terms derived from Middle High German
- Alemannic German terms inherited from Old High German
- Alemannic German terms derived from Old High German
- Alemannic German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Alemannic German lemmas
- Alemannic German nouns
- Alemannic German neuter nouns
- Urner Alemannic German
- gsw:Plants
- Rhymes:Dutch/is
- Rhymes:Dutch/is/1 syllable
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch proper nouns
- Dutch feminine nouns
- Dutch given names
- Dutch female given names
- Dutch diminutives of female given names
- Finnish 1-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ies
- Rhymes:Finnish/ies/1 syllable
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish terms with rare senses
- Finnish given names
- Finnish male given names
- Finnish mies-type nominals
- German 1-syllable words
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- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German terms with homophones
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German neuter nouns
- de:Cities in the Czech Republic
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- German feminine nouns
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- de:Rivers in Germany
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- German masculine nouns
- German nouns with multiple genders
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