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From French sombresault (now obsolete, compare French sursaut, soubresaut), from Old Occitan sobresalt, from sobre- (“over, above”) + salt (“jump”), from Latin supra (“over”) + saltus (“jump”).
Cognate with Spanish sobresaltar (“to spook, startle”) and Portuguese sobressaltar (“to spook, scare, jump over”).
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somersault (plural somersaults)
- Starting on one's feet, an instance of rotating one's body 360 degrees while airborne or on the ground, with one's feet passing over one's head.
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the act of going head over heels
- Aromanian: tumbã f
- Bulgarian: салто n (salto)
- Catalan: tombarella (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 筋斗 (zh) (jīndǒu), 跟頭/跟头 (zh) (gēntou)
- Czech: salto (cs) n, kotrmelec (cs) m
- Danish: saltomortale (da) c
- Dutch: salto (nl) m
- Estonian: kukerpall (on the ground), salto (in air)
- Finnish: voltti (fi)
- French: salto (fr) m, saut périlleux (fr) m, galipette (fr) f
- Galician: pinchagato, pirueta m, viravolta f, reviravolta f, pinchacarneiro m, chumbalagato
- Georgian: ჰაერში გადატრიალება (haerši gadaṭrialeba), მიწაზე გადატრიალება (mic̣aze gadaṭrialeba), სალტო (salṭo), მალაყი (malaq̇i), გადატრიალება (gadaṭrialeba), გადაკოტრიალება (gadaḳoṭrialeba)
- German: Salto (de) m, Überschlag (de) m, Kopsibolter m, Purzelbaum (de) m
- Greek: κυβίστηση (el) f (kyvístisi), τούμπα (el) f (toúmpa)
- Hebrew: (airborne) סלטה \ סַלְטָה (he) f (sálta), (on the ground) גלגול \ גִּלְגּוּל m (gilgúl)
- Hungarian: szaltó (hu), (roll in gymnastics) bukfenc (hu)
- Icelandic: kollhnís m, heljarstökk n
- Ido: kulbuto (io)
- Irish: aer-rothlú m
- Italian: capriola (it) f
- Japanese: 宙返り (ja) (ちゅうがえり, chūgaeri)
- Kazakh: сальто (salto)
- Korean: 공중제비 (gongjungjebi)
- Latgalian: kiuliņs
- Latvian: kūlenis
- Macedonian: са́лто n (sálto)
- Maltese: kukrumbajsa f
- Maori: pōtēteke, pōteketeke, turupeke
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: salto (no) m, saltomortale m
- Nynorsk: salto m, saltomortale m
- Polish: salto (pl) n, koziołek (pl) m
- Portuguese: salto mortal m (in the air), cambalhota (pt) f (on the ground)
- Romanian: tumbă (ro) f, rostogolire (ro) f
- Russian: кульби́т (ru) m (kulʹbít), кувыро́к (ru) m (kuvyrók), са́льто (ru) n (sálʹto)
- Serbo-Croatian: salto (sh) m
- Slovak: kotrmelec m, kotúľ m, salto n
- Spanish: voltereta (es) f (by a child), salto mortal (acrobatics)
- Swedish: kullerbytta (sv) c
- Tagalog: balintong
- Turkish: perende (tr)
- Ukrainian: са́льто n (sálʹto), пере́кид m (perékyd), пере́верт m (perévert)
- Welsh: tin-dros-ben m, trosben m
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somersault (third-person singular simple present somersaults, present participle somersaulting, simple past and past participle somersaulted)
- To perform a somersault.
- The performer somersaulted all the way across the stage.
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