•turn, turning point, reversal (a sharp change in the situation, course, or development of something) · change, shift, about-face (a sudden change in one’s opinion, attitude, behaviour, or position)
turn (of events), twist · lapel, revers (each of the two triangular pieces of cloth on a jacket or coat) · inflection (change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave)
köken: The verb was derived from an unattested stem + -r (frequentative suffix). The stem is of unknown origin. It has been proposed to be a borrowing from Oghur (compare Chuvash ҫавӑр (śavăr, “to turn”), ҫаврӑн (śavrăn, “to revolve”), ҫавра (śavra, “round”), Turkish çevirmek (“to turn over”)), although this is considered unlikely. First attested in c. 1456. The noun was created from the verb during the…