"Spirit" nothing to sneeze at...

Recently I've been having some fun with etymologies (in addition to developing my speech synthesizer). I found a cool one just tonight: "sneeze". Turns out it is cognate with the Greek word "pneuma", which is often translated as "spirit" (e.g. the Holy Spirit). "Sneeze" comes to us from its Germanic ancestor, "fneusen", which in turn comes from its proto-Indo-European ancestor, the root "*pneu". This is the same root that gave rise to Greek "pneuma". The original meaning of the word was "to breathe", but it also gets used to speak of "wind" and such. So to "sneeze" is to breathe out windily! :-)