
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 [...]