Gesundheit

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gesundheit
interj. bless you! (used in response to a sneeze)


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Gesundheit
Gesundheit (IPA pronunciation: ) is the GermanYiddish, and Esperanto word for health. When a person sneezes, German, Yiddish, and Esperanto speakers typically say Gesundheit! to wish them good health, serving much the same purpose as "bless you" in English. 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. 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. Esperanto as an International auxiliary language borrows this word due to its use outside of any one specific language and for its popular use in native languages to Eastern Europe where the highest populations of Esperanto speakers can be found. Its use in Esperanto is also attributed to the language's creator Dr. Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof, an Ashkenazi Jew from the west of the Russian Empire (in what is now Poland).
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Gesundheit (die)
n. haleness, healthiness, freedom from disease, well-being, healthfulness, salubrity, quality of promoting good health, soundness
 
gesundheit
interj. gesundheit, bless you!; bless you!, Gesundheit!

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快一些好
kuai4 yi4 xie1 hao3
May you soon get better!
Bless you! Gesundheit! Said, for example, when someone sneezes.


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gesundheit
Eng: gesundheit
Urdu: یرحمک اللہ ۔ الحمد اللہ ۔ صحت مَندی کے لیے دعائیہ کلمہ ۔
  

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