Where does “turnover” come from?
Turnover derives from Middle English turnen, from Old French torner, from Latin tornare meaning "to turn or rotate," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European terh₁- meaning "to turn" and upo meaning "over."
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- The amount of money taken as sales transacted in...
Ancestry of “turnover”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | turn over | To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom |
| 2 | English | over | Discontinued; ended or concluded; Thoroughly;... |
| 3 | Middle English | over | riverbank, seashore, brink |
| 4 | Old English | ōfer | riverbank, seashore, brink, edge, margin, border |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | obar | over, above |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | uber | over; over, above |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | upér | above; over |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | upó | under, below |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ewp- | — |