Mies

From Middle High German mies, from Old High German mios, an ablauted form of mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog”). Cognate with Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Mies n

1. (Uri) moss

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 65.

• Rhymes: -is

Mies f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Maria

< mies (“man”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmie̯s/, [ˈmie̞̯s̠]
• Rhymes: -ies
• Syllabification^(key): Mies

Mies

1. (rare as a first name) a male given name

• The given name Mies belongs to 11 male individuals (and as a middle name to 82 more, making it overwhelmingly more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

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• IPA^(key): /miːs/
• Homophone: Mieß

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1. A city in Bohemia, Czech Republic.

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1. A river in Bavaria, Germany and Bohemia, Czech Republic.

   Alternative form: (to distinguish from the city) Miesa

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1. a surname
2. a unisex given name from Dutch

• Mies (Fluss) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de