Na zdorov'e

[Dan Newton]

It's a standard Polish toast.


On Thu, 19 May 2005, Deborah Hoffman wrote:

> I wonder if it comes from another Slavic language?  I grew up hearing people say Na zdorov'e all the time as a toast, along with Prosit.  Maybe it's Slovak?  There are many descendants of East Europeans here.
> Deborah
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> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 08:16:07 -0700
> From: Elena Boudovskaia
> Subject: Re: Na zdorov'e
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> Na zdorov'e is not a toast, its' what you answer when someone says to you
> Spasibo!
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> I wonder why all non-Russian speakers think it's a toast? A reminiscence
> from a film somewhere from the 40s maybe, depicting war-time friendship? Or
> from the 50s, about Russian spies? Definitely it's not Russian, whichever
> the source.
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> Real toasts are many (probably there are collections of them somewhere on
> the Internet too). Some of the common ones are: Za vashe zdorov'e; Budem
> zdorovy (or just Budem); simpler ones like Nu davai or Poexali; and the
> famous one from Bulgakov's Sobach'e serdce: Zhelaiu, chtoby vse! (ili:
> chtoby vsio; the word-final e allows two readings, and Bulgakov never told
> us which one he meant).
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> Regards,
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> Elena
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> Deborah Hoffman
> Graduate Assistant
> Kent State University
> Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies
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