Etymology

gesundheit

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German Gesundheit
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The story

  1. German · borrowed fromGesundheit
  2. English todaygesundheit

Unadapted borrowing from German Gesundheit (literally “health”), from gesund (“healthy”). The adjective is cognate with English sound, from Old English ġesund (“sound, safe, healthy”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.