quoth (kw
th)
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 cw
th, third person sing. past tense of cwethan, to say; see gwet- in Indo-European roots.]
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quoth
Verb
Archaic (foll. by I, he, she)said [Old English cwæth]