Wiese
See also: wiese
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
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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