"Un touche" (the spelling you're looking for) is the noun form (a touch), "Touché" is the past participle of the verb (touched). If you watch the Olympic coverage from Beijing, the directors (who do everything in French, since that's the official language of the sport) say "Toosh" (not sure of the proper spelling) rather than "Toosh-ay."Įven in the US, you're far more likely to hear "Prêt? Allez." ("Ready? Go.") at a tournament than you'll ever hear "touche." -Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.112.208.182 ( talk) 08:08, 21 August 2008 (UTC) Reply Well, it's a simple difference really. If we DID, it would be used by one fencer to acknowledge he was hit, not by the director awarding the point.but only in a friendly bout, not at an actual tournament. We actually don't use the term in the sport.at least not in the US. The article makes it seem as though the origin is definitely from some Norse language, but this is certainly not the consensus among lingusts. Now, the OED does assent the possibility of the word having Germanic origins, but also presents us with the far more likely possibility of the Romance word being derived from simple onomatopoeia. from the syllable toc imitating a knock." zocchôn, zucchen, ‘to draw or pull with force, pluck’ but a change of sense from ‘pull’ to ‘knock’ is inexplicable, and it is a more probable view that toccare was not from German, but an onomatopoeic formation of the Romanic langs. "The Romanic toccare has been held, after Diez, to be from an OLG. Some linguists have discussed the possibility of its origins in Low High German, but the Oxford English Dictionary has this to say in the entry for "touch": Touché is merely the past participle of "toucher" (Old French: Touchier), and it, like all Romance language words for touch, derives from Latin "toccare," not from any Germanic source.
I'm very dubious of the claim listed on this page that "touché" is not of French origin, but rather comes from the Norse language spoken by the Normans prior to their acquisition of French.
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