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verb Archaic.
said (used with nouns, and with first- and third-person pronouns, and always placed before the subject): Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”
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| quoth (kwəʊθ) | |
| —vb (used with all pronouns except thou | |
| archaic another word for said | |
| [Old English cwæth, third person singular of cwethan to say; related to Old Frisian quetha to say, Old Saxon, Old High German quethan; see | |
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Word Origin & History
quoth
O.E. cwæð, past tense of cweðan "to say, speak, name, call" (cf. O.S. quethan, O.N. kveða, O.Fris. quetha, O.H.G. quedan, Goth. qiþan). Cf. archaic quotha "said he" (1519) for O.E. cwæðe ge "think you?"
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