07-17-2009, 06:38 AM
Fort?Bragg Wrote:The exact connotation of a 2,500 year old expression is pretty iffy. Obviously the word was derived from spit but what did the expression exactly mean?
I have a special Hebrew-Aramaic etymological dictionary to look it up for you if there is any entry on that at all. If I find something, I will post the result here tomorrow.
But it is unlikely that with a distance of 2,500 years such linguistic cognates remain intact regarding word stem and its associated meaning.
Just for fun, I will try to look up the English etymology for "shithead" as well in an Etymological English Dictionary. I would be surprised to find a relevant entry there...lol.