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.
köken: Potentially from an Old Swedish word corresponding to modern Swedish gäck (“clown”), extracted from sayings such as spela gäck (“to play a joke on someone”).
(by) craft, cunning, guile (with a positive or negative connotation) · tricks, stratagems
çekim: çoğul ā̆stūs · tamlayan ā̆stūs
eş: dolus, calliditās
köken: Of uncertain origin. Suggestions include: * from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd-*sth₂u- (“a standing by”), from *steh₂-, thus formed to astō (“to stand by”) like the verb praestō to the adverb of the same form, with a by-form praestū. In this case the full nominal declension is secondary; * from Ancient Greek ἄστυ (ástu), from the common characterization of city-dwellers as more intelligent, also seen…