craftiness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English crafty

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Middle English -nesse

English -ness

English craftiness

From crafty + -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

craftiness (countable and uncountable, plural craftinesses)

1. Skill in deception, slyness.

Translations

skill in deception, slyness

• Czech: úskočnost f
• French: ruse (fr) f
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌳𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌴𐌹 f (filudeisei)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: πανουργία f (panourgía)

• Hungarian: fortélyosság (hu), rafinéria (hu)
• Irish: lúbaireacht f
• Italian: astuzia (it)
• Latin: vulpēs (la) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forslagenhet (no) m or f, listighet m or f, sluhet m or f

• Russian: хи́трость (ru) f (xítrostʹ), лука́вство (ru) n (lukávstvo), кова́рство (ru) n (kovárstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: препрѐдено̄ст f

  Latin: preprèdenōst (sh) f

• Spanish: astucia (es) f, picardía (es) f
• Swedish: slughet (sv) c
• Turkish: kurnazlık (tr), cerbeze (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: قورنازلق (kurnazlık), شیطانلق (şeytanlık), جربزه (cerbeze)