Wien

From German Wien (“Vienna”); a habitational surname for the city. Doublet of Vienna.

Wien

1. A surname from German.
2. Alternative form of Vienna: the capital and largest city of Austria.
   • 1945, Austrian Basic Handbook, [London]: [Foreign Office], →OCLC, page 11, column 2:

     The growth of Wien’s population during the first twelve months of the Nazi régime was due neither to biological reasons nor to immigration, but was caused by an extension of the administrative territory of the city.

   • 1997, The European Legal 500, 7th edition, London: Legalease, →ISBN, page 19, column 2:

     Liebscher & Hübel and Neudorfer Griensteidl Hahnkamper & Stapf have until recently worked in co-operation but Dr Christoph Liebscher’s move to Wien to open an office has emphasised the incompatibility of two Kanzleien from the same city forming a close partnership.

   • 2017, Norman Flynn, Alberto Asquer, “Open Data, Open Government and Smart Cities”, in Public Sector Management, 7th edition, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 99:

     The city of Wien in Austria (also known as Vienna) is an instance of Smart City.

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

• Wean (inherited, possibly dated)

In this form borrowed from Standard German Wien, from Middle High German Wienne, from Old High German Wēnnia. Further origin uncertain. See the German entry for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiːn/
• Hyphenation: Wien

Wien

1. Vienna (the capital city of Austria)
   • 1938, Josef Weinheber, Wien wörtlich, Sieg der Provinz:

     I waaß net, es gibt so vü' Dichter in Wien,
     und ålle geehrt und berühmt.

     I didn't know there were so many poets in Vienna,
     and all honorable and famous.

   • 2015, “Wien wort auf di [Vienna waits for you]”, performed by Granada:

     Wann wirsds kapieren? Wien wort auf di!

     When will you realise? Vienna waits for you!

2. Wien (a river in Vienna, Austria)

• Maria Hornung, Sigmar Grüner (2002) “Węan”, in Wörterbuch der Wiener Mundart, 2nd edition, ÖBV & HPT

Wien

1. Vienna (the capital city of Austria)

From German Wien.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiːn/, [ˈʋiːn]
• IPA^(key): /ˈwiːn/, [ˈwiːn]
• Rhymes: -iːn

Wien

1. Vienna (the capital city of Austria)

From Middle High German Wiene, Wienne, from Old High German Wienna, Wēnia, probably from a Vulgar Latin *Vedunia, itself from Proto-Celtic *widus (“wood”) or *weidus (“wild”). The Latin name Vindobona is probably not related at all, but at any rate cannot be the immediate source of the Old High German name.

• IPA^(key): /viːn/

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Wien n (proper noun, genitive Wiens or (optionally with an article) Wien)

1. Vienna (the capital city of Austria)

   Wien ist die Hauptstadt von Österreich. ― Vienna is the capital of Austria.

2. Vienna (a state of Austria)

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

1. Wien (a river in Austria, flowing through Vienna)

• Wiener
• wienerisch

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

• Wien on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

From Middle Low German wîn, from Old Saxon wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Proto-Germanic *wīną. Compare Saterland Frisian Wien, German Wain.

Wien m (plural Wien)

1. wine

From Old Frisian wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn. Cognates include German Wein and West Frisian wyn.

• IPA^(key): /vin/
• Hyphenation: Wien
• Rhymes: -in

Wien m (plural Wiene)

1. wine

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “Wien”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /viːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn
• Homophone: vin

Wien n (genitive Wiens)

1. Vienna (the capital city of Austria)

• Wien in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)