cheers (toast when drinking) · bless you (response to sneezing)
çekim: çoğul proosten
eş: gezondheid, santé
köken: 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.).
köken: Literally, “via Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia”; a phrase using Pohjanmaa (“Ostrobothnia”) as a roundabout way to refer to pohja (“bottom”). A story regarding this phrase is that it is a reference to the Finnish Civil War (1918). To prepare for a war of independence, a few thousand supporters of the independence movement received military training in Germany. They became to be called jääkäri (“Jager”).…