köken: From Middle High German list, from Old High German list, from Proto-West Germanic *listi, from Proto-Germanic *listiz. Cognate with English list (“craft, cunning”), which see for more.
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στρατηγική (stratēgikḗ), the feminine nominative singular of στρατηγικός (stratēgikós, “of a general”), with semantic loan from French stratégie for non-military contexts.
a risky move, or gambit, made in the assumption that the opponent's response to it will be a blunder (chiefly in the game of Go) · an exploit · a petty and deceptive ploy
köken: The first element may be connected to 꾀 (kkoe, “cunning wit”). The second element is from 수 (手, su, “move in a board game”). The word was originally jargon used by players of the board game of Go.
a trick (non-obvious, often clever way to accomplish something) · a ploy, (in the plural) trickery
çekim: çoğul kneps · tamlayan kneps
köken: From Middle Low German knep. Cognate of Danish kneb. Compare also recent German Kniff. Related to the verb knipa (“squeeze”). Doublet of knip, knippe, and knippa.
ett knep för att öppna en flaska utan kapsylöppnare
grip (manner of holding things with the hands) · trick, gimmick (effective, clever or quick way of doing something) · trick, gimmick, ploy (something designed to fool or swindle)
çekim: çoğul chwyty · tamlayan chwytu
eş: ujmowanie, łapanie
köken: Blend of Proto-Slavic *xvatъ + Proto-Slavic *xytъ. By surface analysis, deverbal from chwytać.
strategy (science and art of military command) · strategy (art or practice of using similar techniques in other fields of life, particularly business and politics)
çekim: çoğul strategiat · tamlayan strategian
köken: From Ancient Greek στρατηγία (stratēgía, “office of general, command, generalship”), from στρατηγός (stratēgós, “the leader or commander of an army, a general”), from στρατός (stratós, “army”) + ἄγω (ágō, “to lead, to conduct”), via European languages, compare German Strategie, Swedish strategi, Russian страте́гия (stratégija).
deception, deceit, fraud, guile, treachery, trickery · evil intent; malice; wrongdoing (with a view to the consequences) · device, artifice, stratagem, trap
çekim: çoğul dolī · tamlayan dolī
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *dolh₁os. Cognate to Oscan [script needed] (dolom, “intention, ruse”) and Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos), but the Italic terms may be borrowings from the latter.
aile: dolōsus, dolum faciō, subdolus
SĪMŌ: Ego dūdum nōn nihil veritūs sum, Dāve, abs tē, nē facerēs idem quod volgus servōrum solet dolīs: ut mē dēlūderēs