Re: [tied] Touch wood

From: Che
Message: 9192
Date: 2001-09-07

Does this "touch wood" mean "I hope we're lucky"? If it does, it's funny to think why some languages have "touch iron" and others "wood". I had only heard this "wood" thing in Spanish. Anybody knows about it? (maybe some kind of Roman stuff?)
----- Original Message -----
From: Piotr Gasiorowski
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Touch wood

Ditto in Poland, *n-pik^tom doru :)
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: When Germani?

In Dutch, the wood must be "unpainted".

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