thank you

→ Cantonese: thank you (feng¹ kiu⁴)

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→ Japanese: サンキュー (sankyū), サンキュ (sankyu)

→ Korean: 땡큐 (ttaengkyu)

→ Malayalam: താങ്ക്യൂ (tāṅkyū)

→ Mandarin: 三Q (sān kiù)

→ Tagalog: tenkyu

[ˈθeɪ̯ŋk ˌju]

[ˈðeɪ̯ŋk ˌju]

From Middle English thanke yow; a shortened expression for I thank you.

“Thank you!” said the girl after her mom gave her a gift.

Jun[ius] […] The General has new Wine, new come over. / He muſt have new Acquaintance for it too, / For I will none, I thank ye. / Pet[ilus] None, I thank ye? / A short and touchy answer. None, I thank ye: / Ye do not scorn it, do ye?

1711, attributed to John Fletcher, “Bonduca, a Tragedy”, in The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher, volume IV, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakespear's Head over-against Catherine-street in the Strand, →OCLC, act I, scene ii, page 2194:

I had some faint recollection of having a penny-piece in my waistcoat pocket, and, pleased with the service he had rendered to us, I gave it him as his guerdon. "Thank ye, sir—thank ye, sir—thank ye, sir," he cried, and immediately returned to his station near the footway.

1826 April 22, “G.”, “The Dukedom (from ‘The News of Literature and Fashion, Science and Art.’)”, in The Spirit of the Times; or, Essence of the Periodicals; Concentrating Every Week, All that is Worthy (as Strictly Regarding the Time) of Being Preserved, from the Whole of Our Newspapers, Magazines, &c., volume I, number XXIX, London: Printed by Milne, Banfield, and Duckworth … for J. Scott, →OCLC, page 436, column 1:

"But, thank you, Lucy, oh, thank you," said Mrs. Dalloway, and thank you, thank you, she went on saying (sitting down on the sofa with her dress over her knees, her scissors, her silks), thank you, thank you, she went on saying in gratitude to her servants generally for helping her to be like this, to be what she wanted, gentle, generous-hearted.

1925 May 14, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC:

Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing / Thanks for all the joy they're bringing / Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty / What would life be? / Without a song or a dance what are we? / So I say thank you for the music / For giving it to me

1977 December 12, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus (lyrics and music), “Thank You for the Music”, in ABBA: The Album, performed by ABBA:

Thank ya, ma'am, thank ya, thank ya, thank ya. He's a good dog. He likes ever'body. He won' be no bother. Thank ya, ma'am, thank ya, thank ya.

2002, Bill Boyd, “Striking a Deal”, in Stepdaddy: A Creative Memoir, Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, →ISBN, page 96:

Always say "thank you." When in doubt, say "thank you." Say "thank you" even if you think it is not necessary in the circumstances. Whether the recipient thinks it is or is not, it will be appreciated and remembered. It is impossible to say "thank you" too often!

2007, Jerry Goodwin, “Thank You”, in Thank You: One of Seventeen Rules …: Wonderful for Men and Women of All Ages, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 19:

His return text came about an hour later. "I Love you … For all the right reasons," he wrote. "And I'm glad 2 know u feel the true love u have 4 me again … Thank u!! You make me feel like i really am superman!!"

2014 February, Colin McEvoy, Lynn Olanoff, chapter 13, in Fatal Jealousy: The True Story of a Doomed Romance, a Singular Obsession, and a Quadruple Murder (St. Martin's True Crime Library), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 136:

Adrian Shush. / Carl Thank yu. / Adrian Fer what? / Carl Fer staying. / Adrian Man tell mi to. Nuh thank mi. But you must shush.

2014, Roy Williams, Kingston 14, London, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, →ISBN, act II, page 71:

‘No, come in,’ he said. ‘Martin, right? Have a seat.’ […] ‘Thank you, no, I won’t.’ He moved inside a little more.

2015, Amy Andrews, Limbo, Sydney, N.S.W.: Escape Publishing, →ISBN:

An expression of gratitude or politeness in response to something done or given.

دستت درد نکند (dastet dard nakonad, literally “lest your hand hurt”)

دستت درد نکنه (dastet dard nakone, literally “lest your hand hurt”)

gun robh math agaibh

Argyll; to one person, formal; to more than one person


thanks

From Middle English thanks, thankes, from Old English þancas (“thanks”), from Proto-Germanic *þankōs, nominative plural of *þankaz (“thought, gratitude”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel”). More at thank.

der

Could you give me a hand, please? — Yes, sure. — Thanks.

Your last gift, for which thanks, made my family so happy.

Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this!

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

Used to express appreciation or gratitude.

dankie

used to express appreciation or gratitude


thanks

After all I’ve done, a simple acknowledgment is all the thanks I get?


thanks

Thanks dat je de vaat gisterenavond gedaan had, ik had er zelf geen tijd voor.

Thanks for doing the dishes yesterday evening, I didn't have time for it myself.


Gesundheit

de-noun

Gesundheit f (genitive Gesundheit, no plural)

Gesundheit (genitive)
Gesundheit (nominative singular)
Gesundheit (genitive singular)
Gesundheit (dative singular)
Gesundheit (accusative singular)

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From Middle High German gesuntheit. By surface analysis, gesund (“healthy”) + -heit (“-ness, -hood”). Compare Dutch gezondheid.

surf

health (state of being in good physical condition and free from illness)


salud

bless you (said to somebody who has sneezed)


bless you

Short for God bless you, from Middle English God blesse you, God blisse you.

Short for (may) God bless you: said as a short prayer for the recipient.


na zdravie

na zdravie lit. for health (canonical)
idiomatically (canonical)
to your health (canonical)


будь здоров

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будь здоро́в

будь здоро́в • (budʹ zdoróv)

будь здоро́в (canonical)
budʹ zdoróv (romanization)

LL-Q7737 (rus)-Tatiana Kerbush-будь здоров.wav

(informal, to a man/boy) good-bye (lit., "be healthy"), take care


prosit

Borrowed from Latin prōsit (“may it be good”), the third-person singular present active subjunctive of prōsum (“be good”)

bor+

bless you! (said to someone who has just sneezed)


prosit

bless you! exclamation said to someone who has just sneezed


prosit

bless you! (said to someone who has just sneezed or yawned)


viva

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

third-person singular present indicative


à tes amours

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bless you (said after the second sneeze)


Jesús

Borrowed from Latin Iēsus, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Hebrew ישוע (yeshúa).

bless you, gesundheit (said after a sneeze)


Jesús

→ Cebuano: Hesus

→ Hiligaynon: Hesus

→ Guaraní: Hesu

→ Tagalog: Hesus

From Latin Iēsus, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Hebrew ישוע (yēšūaʿ). The peculiar use of Jesús as a given name, unusual in most other traditionally Christian societies, has been ascribed to Arabic influence, in the sense that Christians during the Arab reign in Muslim Spain were influenced by the Muslim use of مُحَمَّد (muḥammad, “Muhammad”). Cognate with Sicilian Gisuzzu.

a male given name, traditionally popular in Spanish-speaking countries


salute

From Latin salūtem, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, completed”).

der

L'igiene è una garanzia di salute.


gesundheit

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

cog

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

1897 July 24, “SNEEZES INTERRUPTED COURT”, in The Albany Law Journal, volume 56, number 4, page 67:

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.

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

(Canada, US) Said to someone who has just sneezed.


gesundheit

From German Gesundheit (literally “health”).

Ik bleef haar aanstaren en moest niezen. Zij bleef lachen en zei: 'Gesundheit.'

2000, Harry Mulisch, Gerrit Komrij, Adriaan van Dis, Maarten 't Hart, Remco Campert, Marga Minco, Hugo Claus, De Schrijver: een literaire estafette, De Bezige Bij, →ISBN, page 142:

I kept staring at her and had to sneeze. She kept laughing and said: 'Bless you.'

'Ja, dat mag. En neem Heidi even mee, alsjeblieft. Ze zit weer te niezen.' Heidi was inderdaad aan het niezen – een hele serie zachte maar spetterende niesjes. 'Gesundheit,' zei Merrick.

2015, Anne Tyler, De blauwe draad, Prometheus, →ISBN, page 96:

'Yes, that's alright. And take Heidi, please. She's sneezing again.' Heidi was sneezing indeed – a series of soft but splattering sneezes. 'Bless you,' said Merrick.

'Gesundheit,' zei hij toen ik moest niezen.

2016, Hans Bogaert, Echo, De Bezige Bij, →ISBN, page 60:

Ik nam een te grote slok water en moest niezen vanwege de prik. 'Gesundheit. Maar er is nog een andere auto gevonden, in Lautenthal zelf.'

2016, Marjolijn Uitzinger, De partijgenoot, Singel Uitgeverijen, →ISBN, page 147:

I took too big of a gulp of water en had to sneeze because it was fizzy water. 'Bless you. But another has been found, in Lautenthal.'

(Netherlands) Said to someone who has just sneezed, bless you


deiseal

deiseal! (canonical)
deiseal (mutation mutation-radical)
dheiseal (lenition mutation)
ndeiseal (eclipsis mutation)

From Old Irish dessel, from dess (“right, south”) and sel (“turn”).

bless you (said after someone has sneezed)


merci

Borrowed from French merci (“thank you”).

bor+

Few games are won without the merci. In the final deal a King above a card of the same suit automatically blocks the game, and the merci should be used to free such a card.

1995, Peter Arnold, The Book of Card Games, →ISBN, page 15:

An extra card or set of cards that is allowed to play at the end of various card games.


merci

(chiefly Belgium or colloquial Netherlands) thank you


merci

nl-noun

merci f (plural mercis, diminutive mercikes n)

mercis (plural)
mercikes (diminutive neuter)


merci

→ Alemannic German: merci

desc

→ Arabic: مرسي (mersī, “thanks (colloquial)”)

→ Armenian: մերսի (mersi, “thanks (colloquial)”)

→ Bulgarian: мерси́ (mersí, “thanks (colloquial)”)

→ Catalan: merci

→ Dutch: merci

→ German: merci

Haitian Creole: mèsi

→ Japanese: メルシー (merushī)

→ Korean: 메르시 (mereusi)

Louisiana Creole: mèsi

→ Luxembourgish: merci

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: մէրսի (mersi)
Turkish: mersi

desc

→ Persian: مرسی (mersi, “thanks (colloquial)”)

→ Romanian: mersi

→ Russian: мерси́ (mersí, “thanks (colloquial)”)

From Middle French merci, mercy, from Old French merci, from Latin mercēdem (“wages, fee, price”).
Used as an interjection of gratitude since at least the early 12th century, originally as "grand merci", for instance spelled "granz merciz" in Li coronemenz Looïs.


merci

From Old French merci (“mercy; clemency”), from Latin mercēdem (“wages, fee, price”).


na zdrowie

Literally, “for health”, or more loosely translated as “to [your] health”. Compare Czech na zdraví, Slovak na zdravie, Serbo-Croatian nazdraviti.

lit

(idiomatic) cheers (said before sharing a drink)

(idiomatic) bless you (said after someone sneezes)


dank u wel

/ˌdɑŋk y ˈʋɛl/

[ˌdɑŋk y ˈʋɛl]


gezondheid

/ɣəˈzɔntˌɦɛi̯t/

From Middle Dutch gesontheid. Equivalent to gezond + -heid. Compare German Gesundheit.


sanon

(interjection) gesundheit, bless you (after a sneeze)


egészségedre

[ˈɛɡeːʃːeːɡɛdrɛ]

egészséged + -re (“[on]to”, case suffix), from egészség (“health”) + -ed (“[informal] your”, possessive suffix).

affix

Egészségedre!

cheers, to your health (toast when drinking)


God bless you

From Middle English God blesse you, God blisse you.

“But she will be gained by some one else. And if that some one should be the very he whom, of all others, I could least bear—But I will not stay to rob myself of all your compassionate good-will, by shewing that where I have most injured I can least forgive. Good bye,—God bless you!” And with these words, he almost ran out of the room.

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 185–186:

Short for May God bless you; said as a short prayer, benediction, or valediction for the recipient.

حَيَّاك اَللّٰه

said as a short prayer for the recipient


наздраве

cheers!, your health!, here's to you!, here's how!, prosit! (toast when drinking)


à tes souhaits

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bless you (said in response to the first sneeze)


bedankt

second/third-person singular present indicative


առողջություն

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առողջությու՛ն

առողջությու՛ն • (aṙoġǰutʻyún)

hy-interj

առողջությու՛ն

առողջությու՛ն • (aṙoġǰutʻyún)

առողջությու՛ն (canonical)
aṙoġǰutʻyún (romanization)

[ɑroχt͡ʃʰutʰʏ́n]

Hy-առողջություն.ogg

From Old Armenian առողջութիւն (aṙołǰutʻiwn).


dankie

Borrowed from Afrikaans dankie, from Dutch dank je.


dankie

→ English: dankie


dank je

Afrikaans: dankie
→ English: dankie

Berbice Creole Dutch: danggi

Jersey Dutch: dānki

→ Ambonese Malay: dangke

→ Papiamentu: danki


proost

Ultimately from Latin prōsit. The contracted form is first attested in 1880; possibly a belated attestation of an informal/dialectal pronunciation, otherwise from German prost (early 18th c.).

(Netherlands) bless you (response to sneezing)


afya

health (state of being free of physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction)


egészségére

[ˈɛɡeːʃːeːɡeːrɛ]

egészsége + -re (“[on]to”, case suffix), the first element from egészség (“health”) + -e (“[formal] your or his/her/its”, possessive suffix).

af

A: Köszönöm az ebédet. Nagyon finom volt.

Thank you for the lunch. It was delicious.

B: Egészségére!

you're welcome (as a reply when a meal or drink is thanked, meaning: may it serve your health)


sănătate

sănătate (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
o sănătate (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
sănătatea (accusative definite nominative singular)
sănătăți (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unei sănătăți (dative genitive indefinite singular)
sănătății (dative definite genitive singular)
sănătate (singular vocative)
sănătateo (singular vocative)

Inherited from Latin sānitās, sānitātem. Compare Aromanian sãnãtati.


çok yaşa

bless you; said to somebody who has sneezed. (singular, informal)


çok yaşayın

bless you; said to somebody who has sneezed (formal).

bless you; said to several people who have sneezed.


noroc

noroace (plural)
noroc (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un noroc (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
norocul (accusative definite nominative singular)
noroace (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște noroace (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
noroacele (accusative definite nominative plural)
noroc (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui noroc (dative genitive indefinite singular)
norocului (dative definite genitive singular)
noroace (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor noroace (dative genitive indefinite plural)
noroacelor (dative definite genitive plural)
norocule (singular vocative)
noroacelor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic нарокъ (narokŭ, “sentence”), from на- (na-) + рокъ (rokŭ), from Proto-Slavic *rokъ.


à vos souhaits

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God bless you (used after the first sneeze)


γείτσες

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γείτσες • (geítses)

From the plural form of υγεία (ygeía) + -ίτσα (-ítsa), minus the initial vowel.

bless you, gesundheit (to someone sneezing)


будьте здоровы

бу́дьте здоро́вы

бу́дьте здоро́вы • (búdʹte zdoróvy)

бу́дьте здоро́вы (canonical)
búdʹte zdoróvy (romanization)

LL-Q7737 (rus)-Tatiana Kerbush-будьте здоровы.wav

(formal or to a group) bless you (said to someone who has sneezed)


saúde

first/third-person singular present subjunctive


dank je wel

/ˌdɑŋk jə ˈʋɛl/

[ˌdɑŋk jə ˈʋɛl]


អាយុវែង

km-interj

អាយុវែង • (ʼaayuʼ vɛɛng)

gesundheit, long life (a blessing, especially to someone who has sneezed)


shëndet

shëndeti (definite)
shëndet (indefinite nominative singular)
shëndeti (definite nominative singular)
shëndet (accusative indefinite singular)
shëndetin (accusative definite singular)
shëndeti (indefinite singular)
shëndetit (definite singular)

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *sanitātis (nominative singular), from Latin sānitās (“health”). Compare Romanian sănătate.


Dia linn

God bless you (said after someone has sneezed)


terveydeksi

bless you, gesundheit (said to someone who has sneezed)


לבריאות

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לַבְּרִיאוּת

לַבְּרִיאוּת or לִבְרִיאוּת • (labri'út or livri'út)

לַבְּרִיאוּת (canonical)
לִבְרִיאוּת (canonical)
labri'út (romanization)
livri'út (romanization)

bless you, gesundheit (borrowed from German Gesundheit (“lit., health”)) (said when someone sneezes)


на здравје

said while someone is eating or drinking or after they have finished (but not before they have started)


Deus te crie

(Brazil) gesundheit; bless you (said to someone who has just sneezed)


santinho

pt-noun

santinho m (plural santinhos, feminine santinha, feminine plural santinhas)

santinhos (plural)
santinha (feminine)
santinhas (feminine plural)

/sɐ̃ˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲu/

[sɐ̃ˈt͡ʃĩ.j̃u]

/sɐ̃ˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲu/

[sɐ̃ˈt͡ʃĩ.j̃u]

(Brazil) a small leaflet with the picture of an election candidate and his voting number


santinho

/sɐ̃ˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲu/

[sɐ̃ˈt͡ʃĩ.j̃u]

/sɐ̃ˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲu/

[sɐ̃ˈt͡ʃĩ.j̃u]

(Portugal) bless you (said to somebody who has sneezed)


mercy buckets

Jocular malapropism of French merci beaucoup (“thanks a lot”); influenced by buckets of (“lots of”).

"Well, anyhow, thanks a lot, Mr. Dumont," he added. "Mercy buckets, as you French say."

1929 "Franklin W. Dixon" (Penguin) Hardy Boys 7: The Secret of the Caves, Chapter 16, p.89

Mercy buckets—a pleasure doing business with you, dude.

2008 Jonathan Nasaw (Simon and Schuster) Fear Itself p.187


hatschi

Onomatopoeia. Compare English achoo, etc.

[Jemand niest.] — “Hatschi!”

(informal) bless you; gesundheit (used a response to someone’s sneezing, also sometimes one’s own)


cơm muối

[kəːm˧˧ muəj˧˦]

[kəːm˧˧ muj˨˩˦]

From cơm (“cooked rice”) + muối (“salt”), perhaps from the ingredients used in exorcisms. Saying it in response to a child's sneeze is believed to expel the evil spirit that's possessing their weak phách at that moment.

(Northern Vietnam, Central Vietnam) bless you; gesundheit


à vos amours

bless you (used after the second sneeze)


一百歲

/i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ paɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/

/i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ paɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/

bless you (the response to someone's first sneeze)


Gesundheed

bless you, gesundheit (response to someone's sneezing)


ܒܪܚܡܐ

aii-interj

ܒܪ̈ܲܚܡܹܐ! • (braḥmē!)

ܒܪ̈ܲܚܡܹܐ! (canonical)
braḥmē! (romanization)

bless you (said to someone who has just sneezed or coughed as a polite remark)


oo terve

[ˈo̝ː ˈte̞rʋe̞]

Literally: "Be healthy". Compare Russian будь здоров (budʹ zdorov).


عافیت باشه

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عافیت باشه • (âfiyat bâše)

bless you; used as a polite response to sneezing


हरि ॐ

Unadapted borrowing from Sanskrit हरि ॐ (hari oṃ).


į sveikatą

Literally, “to health”. Compare Polish na zdrowie (literally “for health”), from which the Lithuanian phrase may have been calqued.