somersault (act of going head over heels without touching the ground, in any which way) · frontflip (act of doing a single forward somersault on the floor) · somersault, flip (maneuver in which an object rotates end-over-end)
çekim: çoğul voltit · tamlayan voltin
köken: Borrowed from Swedish volt, from German Volte, from Italian volta.
somersault (an instance of rotating one's body 360 degrees while airborne or on the ground, with one's feet passing over one's head) · a somersault performed in the air; a salto · a complete and unexpected change or overturn (of opinion, thought, behaviour, etc.)
çekim: çoğul bukfencek
köken: Of internal origin, but its formation is uncertain. Possibly related to bukik (“to fall, tumble”). Numerous archaic and dialectal variants exist. The bak- variants (e.g., bakfinc) were possibly folk-etymologically influenced by bak (“goat buck”), referencing the similarity between a buck's jumping and doing a somersault (see also bakfitty, bakfincál, bakfincoz). For a similar semantic connection,…