wile

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice

Verb

To entice or lure.

Verb

Misspelling of while (“to pass the time”).

Konzepte

List

ködern

locken

list

Schlich

Synonyme

trick

artifice

stratagem

ruse

guile

trickery

deception

deceit

craftiness

subterfuge

craft

cunning

allure

lure

maneuver

chicane

entice

chicanery

feint

pretence

wiliness

shenanigan

manoeuvre

perfidy

plan

play

plot

quirk

ruff

seduce

shrewdness

sleight

slyness

snare

strategem

strategy

stunt

tactics

tempt

thaumaturgy

treacherousness

trickiness

trump

twist

wheeze

trickishness

archness

artfulness

bait

beguilement

Übersetzungen

τέχνασμα

ruse

πανουργία

artifice

γοητεύω

list

leurre

πονηριά

κοροϊδεύω

κόλπο

εξαπατώ

ξεμυαλίζω

δόλος

astucia

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/waɪl/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Verwandt mit Isländisch: vél

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: wijle

In summary

From Middle English wile, wyle, from Old Northern French wile (“guile”) and Old English wīl (“wile, trick”) and wiġle (“divination”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą (“craft, deceit”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”)) and Proto-Germanic *wigulą, *wihulą (“prophecy”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to consecrate, hallow, make holy”)). Cognate with Icelandic vél, væl (“artifice, craft, device, fraud, trick”), Dutch wijle. Doublet of guile.