turning point · inflection point
çekim: çoğul Wendepunkte · tamlayan Wendepunktes
eş: Kehre, Wende, Einschnitt, Umschwung, Extremum
köken: From Wende + Punkt.
watershed · watershed, turning point
eş: divisoria, vertiente, hito
köken: Verb-object compound, composed of parte (“to divide, to split”) + aguas (“waters”). Compare German Wasserscheide and Italian spartiacque (literally “water-divide”).
turning point
çekim: çoğul keerpunten
köken: From keren (“to turn”) + punt (“point”).
a fork in the road (place where a road splits) · a crossroads (decision point)
çekim: çoğul vägskäls · tamlayan vägskäls
köken: väg (“road”) + skäl (“parting”)
🔊 att stå vid ett vägskäl
canyon, gorge · turning point, breakthrough, watershed · turn (e.g. of the century, year, month, etc.)
çekim: çoğul przełomy · tamlayan przełomu
eş: zwrot, kryzys, przesilenie
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *perlomъ. Cognate of Czech přelom and Serbo-Croatian prelom.
aile: przełomowy
watershed (outside US), drainage divide, water divide (boundary between two drainage basins)
çekim: çoğul vedenjakajat · tamlayan vedenjakajan
köken: veden (“of water”, genitive) + jakaja (“divider”)