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English word turn comes from Old French torner, Old English tyrnan, and later Old English turnian (To turn on a lathe.)

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torner (Old French)

(transitive, or, intransitive) to turn. To return; to go back.

tyrnan (Old English)

turnian (Old English)

To turn on a lathe.

turnen (Middle English)

To turn.

turn (English)

(archaic) To translate.. (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.. (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.. (intransitive) Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.. (intransitive) to change one's direction of travel.. (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch [...]

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