An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Wiese

by Friedrich Kluge

Wiese, feminine, ‘meadow, pasture-land,’ from the equivalent Middle High German wise, Old High German wisa, feminine. From the same root are derived with a different gradation Old Icelandic veisa, ‘pool, pond with standing water,’ Anglo-Saxon wâs, ‘moisture,’ English (dialectic) woosy, ‘moist.’ Low German wische, ‘meadow,’ is based on Low German *wîska.