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In non-English-speaking cultures, words connoting good health or a long life are often used instead of "bless you", though some also use references to God. In certain languages such as Vietnamese , Japanese or Korean , nothing is generally said after a sneeze except for when expressing concern when the person is sick from a cold or otherwise.
In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...
Dummkopf, literally "stupid head"; a stupid, ignorant person, similar to "numbskull" in English; Fest, festival; Fingerspitzengefühl (literally "finger-tip feeling", in German used to mean "empathy", "sensitivity" or "tact") Gemütlichkeit, coziness; Gesundheit, literally health; an exclamation used in place of "bless you!" after someone has ...
Note that the word in French has retained the general meaning: e.g. château in French means "castle" and chef means "chief". In fact, loanwords from French generally have a more restricted or specialised meaning than in the original language, e.g. legume (in Fr. légume means "vegetable"), gateau (in Fr. gâteau means "cake").
Spanish manzana de Adán calques English Adam's apple (nuez de Adán, meaning "Adam's nut", in standard Spanish), which in turn is a calque of French pomme d'Adam See also: Spanglish Also technological terms calqued from English are used throughout the Spanish-speaking world:
Croquembouche is a French dessert, which literally means "crunch in the mouth." The dessert is a tall, cone-shaped stack of puff pastry bites, held up by a little bit of caramel allowing the ...
A pseudo-French expression in English is a word or expression in English that has the appearance of having been borrowed from French, but which in fact was created in English and does not exist in French. Several such French expressions have found a home in English. The first continued in its adopted language in its original obsolete form ...
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