Used to wish good health to a person who has just sneezed.
[German, health, from Middle High German gesuntheit, from gesunt, healthy, from Old High German gisunt.]
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[German, health, from Middle High German gesuntheit, from gesunt, healthy, from Old High German gisunt.]
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Gesundheit (German pronunciation: [ɡəˈzʊnt.haɪt] (
listen)) is the German and Yiddish word for health. When a person sneezes, German, Yiddish, and North American English speakers typically say Gesundheit! to wish them good health, serving much the same purpose as "bless you" in English, "salud" in Spanish, "saúde" or "santinho" in Portuguese, "À vos souhaits!" (or "À tes souhaits!" in informal situations) in French or "Çok yaşa!" or "Sağlıklı yaşa!" in Turkish. The expression arrived in America with early German immigrants, such as the Pennsylvania Dutch, and doubtless passed into local English usage in areas with substantial German-speaking populations.[1] The expression is first widely attested in American English as of 1910, about the time when large numbers of Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews immigrated to the United States. The Yiddish form is gezunterheyt געזונטערהייט.[citation needed]
When used in an English context, the word is sometimes given the spelling pronunciation /ɡəˈzʊnd.haɪt/.
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