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1912 illustration. In English-speaking countries, the common verbal response to another person's sneeze is "(God) bless you", or less commonly in the United States and Canada, "Gesundheit", the German word for health (and the response to sneezing in German-speaking countries).
As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling (Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ("fish" = Fisch, "mouse" = Maus), or both (Arm, Ring); these are ...
American students often use the term "foosball" (German Fußball) for the tabletop soccer, for which in Germany however the English term "kicker" is used. If somebody is sneezing, one may respond "[God] bless you". Because many people do not want to use a blessing phrase with religious context, instead the German term "gesundheit" is widely ...
Gesundheit (German for health ) may refer to: A response to sneezing; Gesundheit!, a 2011 video game; Gesundheit! Institute, an American health project; Focus Gesundheit, a German TV channel; Yaakov Gesundheit (1815–1878), Polish rabbi
1 Meaning. 2 Not used for toasts. 2 comments. 3 Gesundheit is actually German-Yiddish for "Bless You" ? 2 comments. 4 Yiddish in 120 B.C.? 5 Are you kidding? 1 comment.
Google added a Hindi dictionary from Rajpal & Sons licensed via Oxford Dictionaries which also supported transliteration and translation to the service in April 2017. [ 19 ] In July 2017, the dictionary was made directly available by typing "dictionary" in Google Search and additional features such as a search box, autocomplete and search ...
The mayor of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, told CNN on Monday that the Israeli assault on the Jenin Refugee Camp was akin to the war in Gaza, saying it had destroyed 120 buildings and ...
Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.