German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for someone with white
hair or an exceptionally pale complexion, from an inflected form of
Middle High German wiz ‘white’, German weiss.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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