Category:Quoth

Quoth, v. t. Etym: [as.cweedhan, imp cwæedh, pl. cwædon; akin to os. Queedhan, ohg. quethan, quedan, icel. kveedha, goth. qiþan. sq. Root22. Cf. Bequeath.]

Defn: said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third Persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, The word or words said being the object; as, quoth i. quoth he. "let Me not live, quoth he." Shak.