gesundheit

ge·sund·heit

[guh-zoont-hahyt]
interjection
(used to wish good health, especially to a person who has just sneezed.)

Origin:
1905–10, Americanism; < German: literally, health, equivalent to gesund healthy (Old High German gisunt; see sound2) + -heit -hood

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gesundheit (ɡəˈzʊnthait) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
sentence substitute
an expression used to wish good health to someone who has just sneezed
 
[from gesund healthy + -heit-hood; see sound²]

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gesundheit
1914, from Ger., lit. "health!" Also in toast auf ihre Gesundheit "to your health" (see sound (adj.)). Lith. aciu, echoic of the sound of a sneeze, has come to mean "good luck, God bless you." See also God.
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Gesundheit [(guh-zoont-heyt)]

German for “good health.” Like the English phrase “Bless you,” it is conventionally said to someone who has just sneezed. This reflects the superstition that a sneeze can cause the soul to fly out of the body; saying the phrase prevents this from happening.

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