Word of the Day 6.5.09

quoth

quoth (kwth)

tr.v. Archaic

Uttered; said. Used only in the first and third persons, with the subject following: “Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore!’”Edgar Allan Poe.


[Middle English, from Old English cwth, third person sing. past tense of cwethan, to say; see gwet- in Indo-European roots.]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

quoth

Verb

Archaic (foll. by I, he, she)said [Old English cwæth]

Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006



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