used to wish good health to someone who has just sneezed
Origin of gesundheit
Germangesundheit
ge·sund·heitWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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gesundheit
interjection
Used to wish good health to a person who has just sneezed.
Origin of gesundheit
German health from Middle High German gesuntheit from gesunt healthy from Old High German gisuntTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Interjection
- (North America) said to someone who has just sneezed
Origin
From German Gesundheit (“health; soundness”). Cognate with Old English gesund (“sound, safe, healthy”).
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"gesundheit." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 14 January 2019. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/gesundheit>.
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