Wiese

See also: wiese

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Wiese.

Proper noun

Wiese (plural Wieses)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• 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.

Further reading

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

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːzə/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iːzə

Noun

Wiese f (genitive Wiese, plural Wiesen)

1. meadow

   Synonym: (Switzerland) Matte

2. 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)

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

Further reading

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