Counterchange

Origin

From Middle French contrechange (noun), contrechanger (verb).

Full definition of counterchange

Verb

1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.
• TennysonWitch-elms that counterchange the floor
  Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright.

Noun

1. (obsolete) An exchange of one thing for another.
2. (obsolete) Due return (for an action etc.); reciprocation.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:But Paridell sore brused with the blow,
  Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse ....