English

turn over

To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.

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    Origin

    From turn + over.

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    • partEnglishturn “To move about an axis through itself.”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishturnen
        • inheritedOld Englishturnian
        • borrowedOld Frenchtorner
      • derivedLatintornus
        • borrowedAncient Greekτόρνος
        • derivedAncient Greekτόρνος
    • partEnglishover “Finished; ended; concluded.”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishover “riverbank, seashore, brink”
        • inheritedOld Englishofer “riverbank, seashore, brink, edge, margin, border”
        • partOld Englishofer-
        • partOld Englishhand

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