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gezunt

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Pronunciations

gezunt	(guh-ZUUNT)	listen
gezunt	(geh-ZINT)	listen

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Definitions

n. Health.
adj. Healthy.

Example Sentences

"To be gezunt is the most important thing in life."
"Have a gut, gezunt, gebenched, mazeldik chodesh and we should all be zocher to make many simachot with simcha be karov, with much siyata dishmaya and ahavat chinum for all! Amen!" (source)

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Languages of Origin

Yiddish

Etymology

געזונט gezunt

Who Uses This

Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

Regions

North America
Great Britain
South Africa

Dictionaries

Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
Yinglish: A Lexicon of Judeo-English by Aliza Bulow

Alternative Spellings

gezint, gazunt, gazunta, gezunte

Notes

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