Gesundheitとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From German Gesundheit (literally “health”), from gesund (“healthy”). The adjective is cognate with English sound, from 古期英語 ġesund (“sound, safe, healthy”).

発音

• IPA: /ɡəˈzʊnt.haɪt/, /ɡəˈzʊn.taɪt/
• (Canada, many 米国発音 accents) IPA: /ɡəˈzʊnt.hʌɪt/, /ɡəˈzʊn.tʌɪt/

間投詞

gesundheit

1. (Canada, US) Said to someone who has just sneezed.
   • 1897 July 24, “SNEEZES INTERRUPTED COURT”, in The Albany Law Journal‎, volume 56, number 4, page 67:

     Everybody Was at It, and There Was No One to Say Gesundheit

   • 2000, Abby Frucht, Polly's Ghost: A Novel‎ (Fiction), Scribner, →ISBN, page 55:

     I used to play a game with David and Douggie, Dennis and Drew — stop their sneezes midsniff just by placing my pinkie finger against their nostrils and saying gesundheit before it was time.

2. (humorous) Said in response to a word that sounds onomatopoeically similar to a sneeze.
   • 2010 November, Dan Fogelman, directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, Tangled, Walt Disney Pictures:

     Flynn: All right, Blondie.
     Rapunzel: Rapunzel!
     Flynn: Gesundheit.

3. (dated) Used as a toast
   • 1906, Rainier Beer advertisement‎:

     Gesundheit, grandpa

     Under a drawing of a young girl and an old man clinking beer glasses

同意語

• bless you