turnen

Borrowed from German turnen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʏr.nə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: tur‧nen

turnen

1. (intransitive) to do gymnastics

From Middle High German *turnen, from Old High German turnēn, from Proto-West Germanic *turnēn (“to turn, lathe”). Cognate with English turn. Semantically, compare English tumble.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʊʁnən/, [ˈtʰʊʁnən], [ˈtʊɐ̯-] (Germany)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtʊʁnɛn/, [ˈtʰ-], [ˈd̥-], [-ʊɐ̯-] (Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland)
• Hyphenation: tur‧nen

turnen (weak, third-person singular present turnt, past tense turnte, past participle geturnt, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive) to do gymnastics

• “turnen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “turnen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “turnen” in Duden online
• “turnen” in OpenThesaurus.de

From Old English turnian, tyrnan (“to turn, rotate, revolve”) and Old French torner (“to turn”), both from Latin tornāre (“to round off, turn in a lathe”), from tornus (“lathe”), from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos, “a tool used for making circles”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by turning, turn, twist, bore”).

turnen (third-person singular simple present turneth, present participle turnende, turnynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle turned)

1. to turn

• English: turn
• Scots: turn

turnen

1. inflection of turnar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative