gesundheit
[ɡə'zʊndhaɪt]
- int. 祝你健康; 对刚打喷嚏的人的祝愿；（德）为你的健康干杯！
gesundheit 别人打喷嚏时说祝你健康来自德语。ge-, 强调，词源同game. -sund, 同sound, 健康，健全。-heit, 同-hood.
- gesundheit (interj.)
- 1914, from German Gesundheit, literally "health!", from Old High German gisunt, gisunti "healthy" (see sound (adj.)). Also in the German toast auf ihre Gesundheit "to your health." Lithuanian aciu, echoic of the sound of a sneeze, has come to mean "good luck, God bless you." God bless you after someone sneezes is credited to St. Gregory the Great, but the pagan Romans (Absit omen) and Greeks had similar customs.
