Wiese

Borrowed from German Wiese.

Wiese (plural Wieses)

1. A surname from German.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wiese is the 3817^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 9287 individuals. Wiese is most common among White (95.57%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wiese”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

From Middle High German wise, from Old High German wisa, from Proto-West Germanic *wisā. Doublet of Wiesn (“Oktoberfest”), from Bavarian. Cognate with Luxembourgish Wiss, Middle Dutch wese, Middle Low German wēse, and the diminutives Old Saxon wiska, Middle Low German wische.

Further origin uncertain. Possibly related with Proto-Germanic *wasô, whence German Wasen, and/or with Old English wīse (“stalk, sprout”), Old Norse vísir (“sproud, bud”), through the root Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to increase”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːzə/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -iːzə

Wiese f (genitive Wiese, plural Wiesen)

1. meadow

   Synonym: (Switzerland) Matte

2. lawn, especially a large one, loosely also a smaller one

   Synonym: Rasen

• Weide

die Wiese f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Wiese)

1. a tributary of the Rhine in Baden-Württemberg, Germany and Switzerland

• “Wiese” in Duden online
• “Wiese” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache