Wiese
See also: wiese
English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Wiese.
Proper noun
Wiese (plural Wieses)
- A surname from German.
Statistics
- 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
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wiese”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
German
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): /ˈviːzə/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -iːzə
Noun
Wiese f (genitive Wiese, plural Wiesen)
- meadow
- Synonym: (Switzerland) Matte
- lawn, especially a large one, loosely also a smaller one
- Synonym: Rasen
Declension
Declension of Wiese [feminine]
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | Wiese | die | Wiesen |
| genitive | einer | der | Wiese | der | Wiesen |
| dative | einer | der | Wiese | den | Wiesen |
| accusative | eine | die | Wiese | die | Wiesen |
Derived terms
- auf der grünen Wiese
- Bergwiese
- Entenwiese
- Feldwiese
- Festwiese
- Feuchtwiese
- Gänsewiese
- Kuhwiese
- Liegewiese
- Moorwiese
- Pferdewiese
- Salzwiese
- Sommerwiese
- Sumpfwiese
- Trockenwiese
- Waldwiese
- Ziegenwiese
Related terms
- Wiesenblume
- Wiesengras
- Wiesenkerbel
- Wiesenklee
- Wiesenmahd
- Wiesenschaumkraut
See also
- Weide
Proper noun
die Wiese f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Wiese)
- A tributary of the Rhine in Baden-Württemberg, Germany and Switzerland
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 3276
Further reading
- “Wiese” in Duden online
- “Wiese” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache