Etymology

unberufen

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Today it means: Touch wood; knock on wood; an injunction to fate that nothing will go wrong. Full definition →

German unberufen
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  1. German · borrowed fromunberufen“let it not be called down on me”
  2. English todayunberufen

From German unberufen (“let it not be called down on me”).

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