somersault

English

Alternative forms

• somerset
• summersault

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French sombresault (now obsolete, compare French sursaut, soubresaut), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Occitan sobresalt, from sobre- (“over, above”) + salt (“jump”). Cognate with Spanish sobresaltar (“to spook, startle”) and Portuguese sobressaltar (“to spook, scare, jump over”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmə(ɹ)ˌsɒlt/ IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmə(ɹ)ˌsɔːlt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmə(ɹ)ˌsɑlt/

Noun

somersault (plural somersaults)

1. Starting on one's feet, an instance of rotating one's body 360 degree while airborne or on the ground, with one's feet going over one's head.

Derived terms

• back somersault
• front somersault
• summy

Translations

the act of going head over heels

• Aromanian: tumbã f
• Catalan: tombarella (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 筋斗 (zh) (jīndǒu), 跟頭／跟头 (zh) (gēntou), 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
• Galician: pinchagato, pirueta m, viravolta f, reviravolta f, pinchacarneiro m
• German: Salto (de) m, Überschlag (de) m, Kopsibolter m, Purzelbaum (de) m
• Greek: κυβίστηση (el) f (kyvístisi), τούμπα (el) f (toúmpa)
• Hungarian: szaltó (hu)
• Icelandic: kollhnís m, heljarstökk n
• Ido: kulbuto (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: capriola f
• Japanese: 宙返り (chūgaeri)
• Latgalian: kiuliņs
• Latvian: kūlenis
• Maori: pōtēteke, pōteketeke, turupeke
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: salto (no) m, saltomortale m

  Nynorsk: salto m, saltomortale m

• Portuguese: salto mortal m, cambalhota (pt) f
• Romanian: tumbă (ro), rostogolire (ro)
• Russian: кульби́т (ru) m (kulʹbít), кувыро́к (ru) m (kuvyrók), са́льто (ru) n (sálʹto)
• Slovak: kotrmelec m, kotúľ m, salto n
• Spanish: voltereta f (by a child), salto mortal (acrobatics)
• Swedish: kullerbytta (sv) c
• Tagalog: balintong
• Turkish: perende (tr)

Verb

somersault (third-person singular simple present somersaults, present participle somersaulting, simple past and past participle somersaulted)

1. To perform a somersault.

   The performer somersaulted all the way across the stage.

Translations

to perform somersault

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 打關斗 (daa² gwaan¹ dau²), 打关斗 (daa² gwaan¹ dau²)

  Mandarin: 翻筋斗 (zh) (fān jīndǒu), 翻跟頭／翻跟头 (zh) (fān gēntou), 翻跟头 (zh) (fān gēntou)

• Czech: dělat kotrmelec impf, udělat kotrmelec pf, dělat salto impf, udělat salto pf
• Finnish: tehdä voltti
• Hungarian: szaltózik
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: kulbutar (io)
• Maori: pōtēteke, pōteketeke, turupeke
• Swedish: göra en kullerbyta
• Tagalog: bumalintong

See also

• flip