Mies

From Middle High German mies, from Old High German mios, an ablauted form of mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog”). Cognate with German Mies.

Mies n

1. (Uri) moss

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

• Rhymes: -is

Mies f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Maria

< mies (“man”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmie̯s/,
• Rhymes: -ies
• Hyphenation^(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

Mies n (proper noun, genitive Mies' or (with an article) Mies)

1. A city in Bohemia, Czech Republic.

Mies f (proper noun, genitive Mies)

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

   Alternative form: (to distinguish from the city) Miesa

Mies m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Mies' or (with an article) Mies, feminine genitive Mies, plural Mies or Miesens)

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

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