means A flat rotating platform — most commonly the part of a record player that spins a vinyl disc at a steady speed so a needle can read its grooves into sound.

from A plain English compound of "turn" and "table," both old Germanic-rooted words. It first named literal turning tables — the rotating railway platforms that swung whole locomotives around to face the other way — before the word settled onto the spinning disc-platform of the phonograph in the early 20th century.