400: gesundheit Jan 12, 2016

In many English speaking countries, the common response to someone else sneezing is 'bless you'. Sometimes, however, someone might interject, 'gesundheit'. This word is an Americanism, and it comes directly from German meaning, 'health'. Broken down, 'gesund' means healthy and '-heit' is equivalent to English's '-hood', i.e. "a state of being healthy".