wile
Significado (English)
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A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
Synonyms
strategem
captivate
Freqüência
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/waɪl/
Etimologia (English)
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.
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