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, 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 vísir (“sprout, bud”), Lithuanian veisti (“propagate”). Related to Wasen and Rasen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːzə/

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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