[Lexicog] Digest Number 421

[Nick Miller]

>>I suspect it is not actually anything to do with to go although it would
be really good to know for sure...what ideas have you had or heard...?

 

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lucky
<http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lucky&searchmode=phrase>
&searchmode=phrase says rather cryptically that the phrase is “from 1672“.
That's all it says about it??

Has it got anything to do with DE “geluk“ (Glück) perhaps, Fritz? Or maybe
it‘s a shortened form of something else, as Simon seems to hint.

It might be worth asking the BBC – you know those radio programs they have
for learners on the World Service. They often come up with the goods. (I
sent them a quick email just now)

Nick Miller

 




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