Wiese
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Wiese (plural Wieses)
- A surname from German.
Statistics[edit]
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Wiese is the 3817th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 9287 individuals. Wiese is most common among White (95.57%) individuals.
Further reading[edit]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wiese”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German wise, from Old High German wisa, perhaps related with Proto-Germanic *wasô, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to increase”).[1]
See also Middle Dutch wese, Middle Low German wēse, and the diminutives Old Saxon wiska, Middle Low German wische; also Old English wise (“stalk, sprout”), Old Norse visir (“sprout, bud”), Lithuanian veisti (“propagate”). Related to Wasen and Rasen.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Wiese f (genitive Wiese, plural Wiesen)
- meadow
- Synonym: (Switzerland) Matte
- lawn, especially a large one, loosely also a smaller one
- Synonym: Rasen
Declension[edit]
Declension of Wiese [feminine]
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
die Wiese f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Wiese)
- A tributary of the Rhine in Baden-Württemberg, Germany and Switzerland
References[edit]
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 3276, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 3276
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