The story
- Middle High German · derived fromze
- Dutch · borrowed fromGiesen
- English todayGiesen
* Borrowed from German and Dutch Giesen, patronymic from Gies, Giese. * Also as a German surname, from the placename Giessen in Hesse, or other similar-sounding places, from a castle name Middle High German ze dën gieȥen (“on the streams”) (see modern gießen (“to pour”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.