Mies
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) | ||||
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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 11 male individuals (and as a middle name to 82 more, making it overwhelmingly more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German edit
Etymology edit
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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