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: Borrowed from Russian та́ктика (táktika), from Ancient Greek τακτικός (taktikós, “fit for ordering”), from τάσσω (tássō, “to order, to arrange”).
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.