For example, I learnt from Hungarian that health means 'wholeness'.
That is because the Hungarian word for wholeness is the same word as health.
This then lead me to research the origin of the English word 'health' too and bingo, I discovered that the English wordsmiths also knew that health meant wholeness, because this meaning is still there in the mediaeval word for health in English: 'hal' or 'hale' which means 'whole, entire, healthy'.
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Thus going from one language to another, we get a confirmation from both, of the fact that the more 'whole' we are, that is the more we are physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually integrated, the healthier we are.
So - szia, bonjour, ciao, bye!
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