Used when someone sneezes, the German word GESUNDHEIT literally means health. It combines the German for healthy, ‘gesund’, with the suffix ‘–heit’, implying a state of being—the English equivalent of which is the ‘–hood’ in words like BOYHOOD, MANHOOD, CHILDHOOD, and PRIESTHOOD. (via @HaggardHawks)

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